MESSENGER
New Crater Names Approved for Mercury’s South Pole & More
Move over, Tolkien & Tryggvadóttir. Yesterday, an announcement was made that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved proposed names for nine…
See Mercury at its Greatest Elongation for 2013
A fine apparition of the planet Mercury graces the dawn skies this week, leading up to its greatest elongation from…
MESSENGER Sees a Smoother Side of Mercury
During its two years in orbit around Mercury -- as well as several more years performing flybys -- the MESSENGER…
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…
A Tribute to MESSENGER
If you're reading this then you probably love space exploration, and if you love space exploration then you know how…
Take a Spin Around Mercury
Created by the MESSENGER mission team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution of Washington,…
Is This Meteorite a Piece of Mercury?
The largest fragment of meteorite NWA 7325 (Photo © Stefan Ralew / sr-meteorites.de) Pieces of the Moon and Mars have been…
A Hi-Res Mosaic of Mercury’s Crescent
A view of Mercury from MESSENGER's October 2008 flyby (NASA / JHUAPL / Gordan Ugarkovic) Every now and then a…
Evidence for Active Hollows Formation on Mercury
MESSENGER targeted-observation image of the interior of Eminescu crater A recent image acquired by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the interior…
Water Ice and Organics Found at Mercury’s North Pole
A radar image of Mercury’s north polar region is shown superposed on a mosaic of MESSENGER images of the same…