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NASA Releasing First Ever Spacecraft Orbital Views Of Mercury NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 16, to reveal new images and science findings from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. The event will be held in the NASA Headquarters auditorium located at 300 E St. SW, in...
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Mercury's magnetic field
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Solar wind may explain Mercury's weak magnetic field The mystery of why Mercury's magnetic field is so weak may just have been solved: It is being stifled by the solar wind, researchers think. Mercury and Earth are the only rocky planets in the solar system to possess global magnetic fields, and for y...
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Mercury's rotation
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Title: Mercury's resonant rotation from secular orbital elements Author: Alexander Stark, Jürgen Oberst, Hauke Hussmann We used recently produced Solar System ephemeris, which incorporate two years of ranging observations to the MESSENGER spacecraft, to extract the secular orbital elemen...
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Mercury catenae
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UK scientists are hunting for impact craters on Mercury that are likely to have been produced by disrupted comets. They are looking for chains of depressions known as catenae. These would have formed when comets passed too close to the Sun and broke apart under tidal forces into many pieces, and then...
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Five impact craters on Mercury
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Mercury Crater-naming Contest Winners Announced The MESSENGER Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Team, coordinated through the Carnegie Institution for Science, has announced the winners from its competition to name five impact craters on Mercury after artist's. Entries had to be submitte...
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Mercury Water
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NASA Spacecraft Finds New Evidence for Water Ice on Mercury A NASA spacecraft studying Mercury has provided compelling support for the long-held hypothesis the planet harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials within its permanently shadowed polar craters. The new informa...
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Nine new crater Names (26.03.13)
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Newly Named Mercury Craters Honour Hawaiian Guitarist, Beloved Young Adult Author The International Astronomical Union (IAU) - the arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since its inception in 1919 - recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to assign names to nine...
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Mercury nomenclature
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved changes to the nomenclature on Mercury. Valles features will be named after abandoned cities, towns or settlements of antiquity. Catenae features (Crater chains) will be named after radio telescope facilities. Arecibo Catena has...
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Mercury volcanism
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Mercury Stirs: The Iron Planet Is Livelier than We Think In 2004 NASA launched the Messenger spacecraft, which arrived in orbit around Mercury a year ago and has been surveying the planet with laser altimeters, gravitational instruments, cameras and more ever since. Now, a pair of papers appearin...
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Lemon tart craters
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Lemon tart craters on Mercury are solar system first Spotted by a NASA probe, the craters are unlike anything seen on other rocky worlds, adding to the diversity of geologic processes known to occur in the solar system. The pies were found in Mercury's northern highlands, which were flooded repeate...
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Chesterton crater
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a crater on Mercury. Chesterton for a 37.23-km-wide crater located at 88.3°N, 134.5°W. The feature was named in honour of the English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936).
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Nine new crater Names
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for nine craters on Mercury. Egonu for a 25-km-wide crater located at 67.4°N, 299.2°E. The feature was named in honour of the Nigerian artist Uzo Egonu (1931-1996). Gaudí for a 81-km-wide crater located at 76.9°N, 290...
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Raditladi impact basin
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Hollows inside the Raditladi impact basin Expand (347kb, 1024 x 768) Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. In a series of papers published this week in Science, NASA researchers highlighted "strange hollows" foun...
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Mercury's South Pole
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Movie of Mercury's South Pole This movie shows 89 WAC images of Mercury's south polar region acquired over one complete Mercury solar day (176 Earth days) in 2011. This dataset enabled the illumination conditions at Mercury's south polar region to be quantified. [url=http://messenger.jhuapl....
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Caloris Basin
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Asteroid Crash May Explain Mercury's Strange Spin Researchers suggest that Mercury was once tidally locked, initially spinning in the opposite direction to its orbit. "Mercury once had a spin rate synchronous with the sun, like the moon with the Earth" study co-author Alexandre Corr...
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