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Craters on Mercury's surface

NASA Extends MESSENGER Mission

NASA has announced that it will extend the MESSENGER mission.

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Orthographic view of Mercury

Team Presents Mercury Findings at Planetary Conference

Scientists highlight the latest results from observations obtained during MESSENGER’s first six months in orbit.

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MESSENGER Sends Back New Orbital Observation Data

After only six months in orbit around Mercury, MESSENGER reveals flood lavas, hollows, and unprecedented surface details.

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Footprints of the MASCS Instrument on Mercury's Surface

Team Delivers First Orbital Data to PDS

Data collected during MESSENGER’s first two months in orbit around Mercury have been released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS).

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MESSENGER Mission Updates

  • MESSENGER Among Discover Magazine's Top 100 Stories of 2011  →

    12.22.11 - The crater at the center of 12/21/2011's MESSENGER image of the day is named Dickens, after Charles Dickens, the English novelist who lived from 1812 to 1870. Among Dickens' most famous works is A Christmas Carol, the story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his tortured journey to a more humanitarian and generous nature.

  • MESSENGER Among Discover Magazine's Top 100 Stories of 2011  →

    12.16.11 - Discover magazine has named the MESSENGER mission one of the top 100 stories of 2011. "The 100 stories here capture scientific curiosity in all its stages: provocative early results, long-sought confirmation, and many steps in the iterative process of testing theory against observation and vice versa," wrote Discover Editor-in-Chief Corey Powell in the Editor's Note for the January/February 2012 issue of the magazine.

  • MESSENGER Team Presents Latest Mercury Findings at AGU Fall Meeting  →

    12.05.11 - Members of the MESSENGER team will present a broad range of findings from the spacecraft's orbital investigation of Mercury during the 2011 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), which takes place this week, December 5-9, in San Francisco. In 63 oral and poster presentations spanning 13 technical sessions, team scientists will report on the analysis and interpretation of observations made by MESSENGER's instruments since the spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury in March 2011.

  • MESSENGER Recognized as "Best of What's New" by Popular Science  →

    11.18.11 - MESSENGER was named a winner in Popular Science magazine's 24th annual "Best of What's New" in the Aviation and Space category.

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The Pit of Scarlatti

Image from Orbit of Mercury: The Pit of Scarlatti
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Hooked on Tectonics

Image from Orbit of Mercury: Hooked on Tectonics
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Apollodorus and the Pantheon

Image from Orbit of Mercury: Apollodorus and the Pantheon
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