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»» NASA Planetary Data System MESSENGER Release 8
[Monday, September 10, 2012] The Planetary Data System is pleased to announce Release 8 of data collected by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission.
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»» MESSENGER image of Mercury: Complex Floor of Crater Derain
[Thursday, September 6, 2012] The complex floor of the crater Derain is featured in the image above. A portion of the floor displays a hummocky, pitted texture that may be related to past volcanic activity, and several troughs are visible in the center of the crater.
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»» MESSENGER image of Mercury: Peak-Ringed Renoir
[Tuesday, September 4, 2012] Today's featured image highlights Renoir, one of Mercury's beautiful peak-ring basins. Renoir appears to be older than other basins like Raditladi and Rachmaninoff, with more degradation from subsequent cratering and modification by tectonic activity.
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»» Good vibrations for BepiColombo
[Monday, August 20, 2012] Mimicking the intense vibrations experienced by a satellite during launch, the engineering model of the BepiColombo mission to Mercury has been subjected to similar forces at ESA's spacecraft test facilities.
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»» MESSENGER Marks 8th Anniversary of Launch
[Sunday, August 5, 2012] The MESSENGER spacecraft launched eight years ago on August 3, 2004 -- embarking on a six-and-a-half year journey to become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
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»» MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury
[Wednesday, June 27, 2012] MESSENGER will complete its 1,000th orbit of the planet closest to the Sun at 11:22 p.m. EDT tonight (22 June 2012).
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»» MESSENGER Measures Waves at the Boundary of Mercury's Magnetosphere
[Wednesday, May 23, 2012] MESSENGER scientists have concluded that waves driven by the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability play a key role in driving Mercury's magnetosphere.
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»» Mercury's Magnetic Field Measured by MESSENGER Orbiter
[Wednesday, May 16, 2012] Researchers working with NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft report the frequent detections of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) waves at the edge of the innermost planet's magnetosphere.
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»» NASA MESSENGER Mission Gains Deputy Principal Investigator
[Thursday, May 10, 2012] Larry Nittler, a staff scientist in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has been named deputy principal investigator of the MESSENGER mission.
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»» MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Large Craters in Goethe Basin
[Saturday, May 5, 2012] The two large craters in this scene are located in Goethe basin, a 383-km-diameter basin in the northern plains of Mercury. Portions of these craters are in areas of permanent shadow and host radar-bright materials.
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»» Dr. Seuss, Alvin Ailey among the Names Selected for 23 Mercury Craters
[Thursday, May 3, 2012] The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to assign 23 new names to impact craters on Mercury.
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»» BepiColombo Planetary Orbiter and Transfer Module mated for first time
[Thursday, May 3, 2012] The Structural and Thermal Models of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Transfer Module were mated for the first time on 11 April 2012.
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»» NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Crater Debussy
[Thursday, April 26, 2012] This color image of Mercury's limb captures Debussy, a crater 80 km (50 mi.) in diameter, as well as some if its extensive rays.
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»» MESSENGER Settles into Eight-Hour Orbit Around Mercury, Poised for New Discoveries
[Monday, April 23, 2012] MESSENGER mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., conducted the second of two maneuvers required to reduce the spacecraft's orbital period about Mercury
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»» NASA MESSENGER Image: Permanent Shadows at Mercury's South Pole
[Monday, April 2, 2012] The highest-resolution radar image of Mercury's south polar region made from the Arecibo Observatoryis shown in white on MESSENGER orbital images colorized by the faction of time the surface is illuminated.
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»» Movie of Mercury's South Pole
[Saturday, March 31, 2012] This movie shows 89 WAC images of Mercury's south polar region acquired over one complete Mercury solar day (176 Earth days) in 2011. This dataset enabled the illumination conditions at Mercury's south polar region to be quantified.
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»» Image: Highs and Lows of Goethe Basin on Mercury
[Thursday, March 29, 2012] The width of this image is about 250 kilometers (150 miles) Topographic information from the Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) is used to colorize a image mosaic of Goethe basin, located in Mercury's northern region.
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»» NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Close-up of Craters Hosting Radar-bright Deposits
[Monday, March 26, 2012] MESSENGER's highly eccentric orbit, which passes low over Mercury's north polar region, enables higher-resolution views of Mercury's surface in the north than in the south.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
The Mantle of Mars: Insights from Theory, Geophysics, High-Pressure Studies, and Meteorites
Monday, September 10, 2012
Growing-up at high redshift: from proto-clusters to galaxy clusters
Monday, September 10, 2012
1970-2010: The Golden Age of Solar System Exploration
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
AIAA Complex Aerospace Systems Exchange (CASE)
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
NASA TV Departure of Japanese Cargo Ship From Space Station
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Hearing: Examining NASA's Development of the Space Launch System and Orion Crew Capsule
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
NASA Scientist Lora Koenig to Discuss "My Winter in Greenland and Summer in Antarctica"
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
We Choose to Explore Space Congressional Blitz
Thursday, September 13, 2012
NASA To Honor Neil Armstrong at National Cathedral
Thursday, September 13, 2012
NASA Crew News Conference to Preview Space Station Expeditions
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Media Advisory: Chris Hadfield is Getting Ready to Take Command of ISS
Thursday, September 13, 2012
YouTube SpaceLab winners to watch their experiments live from space
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