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The MESSENGER science team released more pictures from the Jan. 14 flyby, including what we've all been waiting for, the…
British scientists have been given the green light to begin the development of the most advanced ion engines ever to…
[/caption] Even though the Mercury flyby happened earlier this week, you can look forward to days and days of images.…
Images and data are arriving from MESSENGER's recent flyby of Mercury. Scientists from NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics…
Even though spacecraft have visited Mercury in the past, the same hemisphere was always in sunlight for every encounter. One…
On January 14 the MESSENGER spacecraft skimmed just 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the surface of Mercury in the first…
If you thought you were good at pool, think again: in a game of interplanetary billiards, the MESSENGER team has…
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