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PSI unveils Mercury's hidden glaciers, suggesting new astrobiological insights

Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 18, 2023
Scientists from the Planetary Science Institute have uncovered evidence of potential salt glaciers on Mercury, opening a new frontier in astrobiology by revealing a volatile environment that might echo habitability conditions found in Earth's extreme locales. "Our finding complements other recent research showing that Pluto has nitrogen glaciers, implying that the glaciation phenomenon extends from the hottest to the coldest confines within our Solar System. These locations are of pivotal importan ... read more
Source of electron acceleration and X-ray aurora of Mercury
Kanazawa, Japan (SPX) Oct 11, 2023
Since Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun among the solar system planets, it is strongly influenced by the solar wind, a high-speed (several hundred km/s) stream of plasma blowing from the Sun. ... more
Mapping the Sun's Interaction with Mercury's Surface
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 15, 2023
A new study maps the infall of protons and electrons from the solar wind to geographical location on the surface of Mercury, giving scientists new insight into how interactions with the Sun alters t ... more
First BepiColombo flyby of Mercury finds electron rain triggers x-ray auroras
London, UK (SPX) Jul 19, 2023
BepiColombo, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission, has revealed how electrons raining down onto the surface of Mercury can trigger high-ener ... more
ASU scientist uses NASA MESSENGER mission data to measure chromium on Mercury
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is mysterious in many ways. It has a metallic core, like Earth, but its core makes up a much larger fraction of its volume - 85% compared to 15% ... more
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A trio of images highlight BepiColombo's third Mercury flyby
Paris (ESA) Jun 22, 2023
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities as it adjusts ... more
BepiColombo braces for third Mercury flyby
Paris (ESA) Jun 15, 2023
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its next close flyby of Mercury on 19 June, when it will pass the planet's surface at an altitude of about 236 km. This is the third of six gravity ... more
BepiColombo's second Mercury flyby
Paris (ESA) Jun 28, 2022
A beautiful sequence of 56 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission as the spacecraft made its second close flyby of its destination planet Mercury on 23 June ... more
Second helpings of Mercury
Paris (ESA) Jun 27, 2022
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its second gravity assist of planet Mercury, capturing new close-up images as it steers closer towards Mercury orbit in 2025. The closest approach took plac ... more
BepiColombo lines up for second Mercury flyby
Paris (ESA) Jun 21, 2022
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its second close flyby of Mercury on 23 June. ESA's spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo through six gravity assists of the planet befo ... more
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Solar Wind a Major Driver of Atmospheric Sodium at Mercury
Washington DC (SPX) May 31, 2022
No object in the solar system experiences the Sun's solar wind more powerfully than Mercury. The planet's magnetic field deflects the Sun's stream of electrically charged particles at a distance of ... more
Space dust, asteroids and comets can account for all water on Mercury
Leiden, Netherlands (SPX) Apr 22, 2022
Mercury harbors water ice in the shadows of the steepest craters around its poles. But it is unclear how those water molecules ended up on Mercury. Now a new simulation shows that incoming minor bod ... more
Scientists find Mercury has magnetic storms
Fairbanks AS (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth. The research by scientists in the United Stat ... more
Radar studies of ice at Mercury may help Artemis Program
Columbia MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, some craters on Mercury's poles contain ice. The deposits, which were first detected in the early 1990s, were thought to be thick layers of nearly pure w ... more
BepiColombo's first views of Mercury
Paris (ESA) Oct 05, 2021
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has captured its first views of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby last night. The closest approach took place at 23:3 ... more
Europe-Japan space mission captures images of Mercury

Paris (AFP) Oct 2, 2021
The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back its first images of Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun, the European Space Agency said Saturday. The images were obtained almost three years after the unmanned mission vessel was launched aboard an Ariane 5 Rocket. The cameras attached the BepiColombo provided black-and-white images, the ESA said in a statement. But as the spacecraft arrived on the night side of the planet, conditions were "not ideal" for taking images at its clo ... read more
BepiColombo swings by Mercury ahead of 2025 orbital insertion
Paris (ESA) Oct 04, 2021
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre. The image was taken at 23 ... more

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Mercury ahead
Paris (ESA) Oct 01, 2021
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury will make the first of six flybys of its destination planet on 1 October before entering orbit in 2025. Hot on the heels of its last Venus flyby in ... more
Scientists Have New Data on the Nearest Planet to the Sun
Yekaterinburg, Russia (SPX) Aug 06, 2021
An international team of planetary scientists from Russia, Finland, and the United States has analyzed for the first time the factors that determine the number of boulders on the surface of the near ... more
Why does Mercury have a big iron core?
Sendai, Japan (SPX) Jul 07, 2021
Scientists from Tohoku University and the University of Maryland have pinpointed the strong magnetic field of the early sun as the reason behind the radial variation of rock and metal in rocky plane ... more
Proximity to Sun's magnetic field influenced Mercury's hefty iron core
College Park, MD (SPX) Jul 05, 2021
For decades, many scientists argued that hit-and-run collisions with other bodies during the formation of our solar system blew away much of Mercury's rocky mantle and left the big, dense, metal cor ... more
Study reveals MESSENGER watched a meteoroid strike Mercury
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 02, 2021
NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission to Mercury has been out of operation for nearly six years, but the data it collected keeps on giving, from rev ... more
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