Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury has Magnetic Poles that Drift Like Earth’s
Earth's magnetic poles drift over time. This is something that every airplane pilot or navigator knows. They have to account…
MESSENGER Spies a Meteor Shower… on Mercury
Leonid meteor storms. Taurid meteor swarms. Earth is no stranger to meteor showers, that’s for sure. Now, it turns out…
Delaying Death: Mercury Spacecraft Firing Engines To Stay Up Until 2015
Don't take these spectacular Mercury images (below the jump) for granted. Three weeks ago, NASA's orbiting Mercury spacecraft did an…
Ice Alert! Mercury’s Deposits Could Tell Us More About How Water Came To Earth
New pictures of water ice at Mercury's north pole -- the first such optical images ever -- could help scientists…
Mariner 10: Best Venus Image and 1st Ever Planetary Gravity Assist – 40 Years Ago Today
Exactly 40 Years ago today on Feb. 5, 1974, Mariner 10, accomplished a history making and groundbreaking feat when the…
5 Mercury Secrets Revealed by MESSENGER
After two years of doing the loop-the-loop around Mercury, MESSENGER has unveiled a bunch of surprises from Mercury -- the…
Mercury’s False Moon: The Mercury/Mars Planetary Conjunction this Weekend
[/caption] The history of astronomy is littered with astronomical objects in the solar system that have fallen to the wayside.…
- Asteroids
- Astronomy
- Cassini
- Comets
- Curiosity
- Earth
- Enceladus
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Juno Mission
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Mars Science Laboratory
- Mercury
- Missions
- Moon
- NASA
- Pluto
- Saturn
- Science
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Flight
- Titan
2011: Top Stories from the Best Year Ever for NASA Planetary Science!
[/caption] A year ago, 2011 was proclaimed as the “Year of the Solar System” by NASA’s Planetary Science division. And…
Our Own Private Hell: Unlocking Mercury’s Enigmatic Past
[/caption] Editor’s note: Bruce Dorminey, science journalist and author of “Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System,”…
- Asteroids
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Kennedy Space Center
- Mars
- Mars Science Laboratory
- Mercury
- Missions
- NASA
- Science
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Flight
NASA Planetary Science Trio Honored as ‘Best of What’s New’ in 2011- Curiosity/Dawn/MESSENGER
[/caption] A trio of NASA’s Planetary Science mission’s - Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Dawn and MESSENGER - has been honored…