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Magnetic Tornadoes Could Liberate Mercury's Tenuous Atmosphere
Mercury is scorching hot,
with daytime temperatures of
more than 800 degrees
Fahrenheit. Its hard for the
planet to hold on to its
... > full story
Magnesium Detected In MESSENGER Flyby Of Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft
served up another curveball
after a second flyby of the
hot inner planet Oct. 6
detected magnesium -- an
element created inside
... > full story
Unusual Impact Basin Discovered On Mercury
A previously unknown, large
impact basin has been
discovered by the MESSENGER
spacecraft during its second
flyby of Mercury in October
2008. The impact basin, now
named Rembrandt, more than
... > full story
Origin And Evolution Of Planet Mercury Revealed With Multispectral Images
Using high-resolution and
multispectral images,
researchers have started the
difficult process of
determining the composition
... > full story
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More Hidden Territory On Mercury Revealed By MESSENGER Spacecraft
October 31, 2008 — A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced ... > full story -
NASA's MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals Mercury As Never Seen Before
October 7, 2008 — NASA's MESSENGER space probe has made its second swing past Mercury, just 125 miles (200 kilometers) above the cratered surface of our solar system's innermost planet, snapping hundreds of pictures ... > full story -
Space Scientists Set For Second Spacecraft Flyby Of Mercury
October 2, 2008 — NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which is toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument to measure Mercury's wispy atmosphere and blistering surface, will make its second flyby ... > full story -
Mercury's 'Spider' Pantheon Fossae Formation Linked To Asteroid Impact
September 29, 2008 — A new model suggests that the origin of the Pantheon Fossae on the planet Mercury, a radiating web of troughs located in the giant Caloris Basin, is directly linked to an impact crater at the centre ... > full story -
Volcanic Activity Shaped Mercury After All
July 6, 2008 — Planetary geologists have determined that volcanism played a central role in forming Mercury's surface. The evidence of volcanic activity, published in Science, lends important insights into ... > full story -
Mercury's Surface Dominated By Volcanism And Iron-deficiency
July 5, 2008 — Multispectral data on the composition of rock untis of the surface of Mercury show a widespread role for volcanism and an apparent deficiency in iron in the rocks' ... > full story -
MESSENGER Settles Old Debates And Makes New Discoveries At Mercury
July 4, 2008 — Scientists have argued about the origins of Mercury's smooth plains and the source of its magnetic field for more than 30 years. Now, analyses of data from the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the ... > full story -
Iron 'Snow' Helps Maintain Mercury's Magnetic Field, Scientists Say
May 8, 2008 — New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form in Earth's atmosphere and fall to the ... > full story -
Mercury's Shifting, Rolling Past
March 19, 2008 — Patterns of scalloped-edged cliffs or lobate scarps on Mercury's surface are thrust faults that are consistent with the planet shrinking and cooling with time. However, compression occurred in the ... > full story -
'The Spider' On Mercury: MESSENGER Spacecraft Streams Back Surprises
February 2, 2008 — The recent flyby of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has given scientists an entirely new look at a planet once thought to have characteristics similar to those of Earth's moon. Researchers are ... > full story
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