"Our study uses geophysical data collected by the NASA MESSENGER spacecraft." MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) launched in Aug. 2004 and became the first ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan ... only be the second spacecraft to do it, following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. BepiColombo 3 Captured ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board ... BepiColombo follows in the footsteps of NASA's Mariner 10, which photographed Mercury in 1974-75, and NASA’s MESSENGER, which ...

NASA has ordered a pause on all work by key planetary and astrophysics science ... Some committee members had already begun ...

Flying 295 km above Mercury, it photographed icy craters, volcanic plains, and the planet's largest impact crater. Mercury reflects two-thirds less light than Earth's Moon, making its surface appear ...

Public domain via NASA - PILOT, Planetary Image Locator ... When the space probe Mariner 10 flew by Mercury in 1974, the first-ever surface features on that planet were imaged.