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Mercury's Magnetic Field Measured by MESSENGER OrbiterLaurel MD (SPX) May 18, 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. In six different sets of magnetic field measurements made by the orbiter as it passed through Mercury's magnetopause, the boundary that separates the planet's magnetosphere from the solar wind plasma in the magnetosheath, Sundberg et al. detect the magnetic field oscill ... read more |
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 MESSENGER Adjusts Orbit for a Closer Look at Mercury The MESSENGER mission successfully completed the first of two maneuvers designed to reduce the spacecraft's orbital period about Mercury. This new trajectory will pave the way for more detailed meas ... more | .. |
 Data from MESSENGER spacecraft reveals new insights on planet Mercury Thanks to the MESSENGER spacecraft, and a mission that took more than 10 years to complete, scientists now have a good picture of the solar system's innermost planet. On March 17, MESSENGER (M ... more | .. |
MESSENGER Provides New Look at Mercury's Landscape, Metallic Core, and Polar Shadows MESSENGER completed its one-year primary mission on March 17. Since moving into orbit about Mercury a little over one year ago, the spacecraft has captured nearly 100,000 images and returned data th ... more |
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 Mercury's Surprising Core and Landscape Curiosities On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year. The bounty of surprises from the mission has completely altered o ... more | .. |
 MESSENGER Completes Primary Mission at Mercury, Settles in for Another Year On March 17, 2012, MESSENGER successfully wrapped up a year-long campaign to perform the first complete reconnaissance of the geochemistry, geophysics, geologic history, atmosphere, magnetosphere, a ... more | .. |
 MESSENGER Team Delivers Data from First Full Mercury Solar Day to Planetary Data System Data collected during MESSENGER's third through sixth month in orbit around Mercury were released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all ... more | .. |
Messenger Modifies Orbit to Prepare for Extended Mission Messenger successfully completed an orbit-correction maneuver this evening to lower its periapsis altitude - the lowest point of Messenger's orbit about Mercury relative to the planet's surface - fr ... more |
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 BepiColombo Mercury mission to be launched in 2015 BepiColombo, an ESA mission to the planet Mercury in collaboration with the Japanese space agency, JAXA, is now planned for launch in a window opening in August 2015. While ESA had previously ... more | .. |
 Software Enables Efficient Planning of MESSENGER Observations SciBox has proven critical to the success of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury. With completion of the design of all primary-mission observations - including more than 70,000 images and millions of s ... more | .. |
 Scientists eye Mercury magnetic puzzle Mercury, the smallest planet and the closest to the sun, has an unexpectedly weak magnetic field, and European researchers have fingered the sun as the culprit. ... more | .. |
 Structural model of the BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter at ESTEC The BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter Structural Model arrived at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands on 7 November 2011, having been flown from Japan. ... more |
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NASA Extends Messenger Mission NASA has announced that it will extend the Messenger mission for an additional year of orbital operations at Mercury beyond the planned end of the primary mission on March 17, 2012. The Messenger pr ... more | .. |
 Strange Hollows Discovered on Mercury NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury. Images taken from orbit reveal thousands of peculiar depressions at a variety of longitudes and latitudes, rangi ... more | .. |
Fourth Orbit Adjustment Stretches MESSENGER Orbit around Mercury The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its fourth orbit-correction maneuver to increase the period of the spacecraft's orbit around the innermost planet from 11 hours 46 minutes to a precis ... more | .. |
 Mercury Planetary Orbiter takes a simulated trip to the innermost planet Thermal-balance testing of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Structural and Thermal Model, which has been under way in ESA's Large Space Simulator since 20 September, has been successfully c ... more |
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Mercury Planetary Orbiter takes a simulated trip to the innermost planet Thermal-balance testing of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Structural and Thermal Model, which has been under way in ESA's Large Space Simulator since 20 September, has been successfully c ... more | .. |
Messages from Mercury MESSENGER scientists will highlight the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. These findings were present ... more | .. |
 MESSENGER Team Presents New Mercury Findings at Planetary Conference MESSENGER scientists on Wednesday highlighted the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. The findings were ... more | .. |
Extreme Space Weather at Mercury Blasts the Planet's Poles The solar wind sandblasts the surface of planet Mercury at its poles, according to new data from a University of Michigan instrument on board NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The sodium and oxygen ... more |
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Ariane rocket to hoist Europe-Japan mission to Mercury An unmanned European-Japanese mission to Mercury will be launched by Ariane 5 rocket in July 2014 under a contract announced on Thursday by Arianespace. ... more | .. |
MESSENGER Team Delivers First Orbital Data to Planetary Data System Data collected during MESSENGER's first two months in orbit around Mercury have been released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all of N ... more | .. |
MESSENGER Navigates Second Hot Season, Executes Third Orbit-Correction Maneuver Today the MESSENGER spacecraft emerged unscathed from the second of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit around Mercury. Hours later, mission controllers ... more |
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