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... the suit with blue stripes. ''RELEASE: 11-079 NASA'S MESSENGER SPACECRAFT BEGINS HISTORIC ORBIT AROUND MERCURY'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9 p.m ... Center, received the anticipated radiometric signals confirming nominal burn shutdown and successful insertion of the MESSENGER probe into orbit around the planet Mercury. NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, Geochemistry, and ...

... planet Venus, a maneuver intended eventually to steer the spacecraft to its final destination, Mercury. MESSENGER was the second spacecraft that NASA had launched to Mercury; the first had been Mariner ... these planetary passages, the gravity of Venus and of the other planets would help decelerate MESSENGER , altering its trajectory so that the spacecraft would eventually attain orbit around Mercury. NASA planned ...

... between Mercury’s atmosphere and its surface. ''NASA, “ MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory on Mercury,” news release 08-275, 29 October 2008, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/oct/HQ_08-275_Messenger_Mercury.html (accessed 8 August 2011); James Dean, “Messenger Sends New Views of Mercury,” Florida Today (Brevard, FL), 8 October ...

... its MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging ( MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging MESSENGER ) spacecraft had performed its third and final Mercury flyby on 29 September, giving scientists a ... ://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/nov/HQ_09-257_Messenger.html (accessed 18 November 2011); Peter N. Spotts, “NASA’s Messenger Probe Reveals New Clues About Mercury,” Christian Science Monitor, 4 ...

... that MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging MESSENGER was no longer a flyby mission. Instead, MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging MESSENGER would soon become an in-depth, nonstop global ... of Mercury,” Wired, 16 December 2009; Nancy Atkinson, “ MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging MESSENGER Team Releases First Global Map of Mercury,” Universe Today, 16 December 2009.''  December 2009 December ...

... craters. The new information comes from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. Its onboard instruments have been studying Mercury in unprecedented detail since its historic arrival ... abundant water ice in its permanently shadowed polar regions," Solomon said. "MESSENGER now has supplied a unanimous affirmative verdict." MESSENGER was designed and built by APL. The lab manages and operates the ...

... AT MERCURY'' WASHINGTON -- NASA scientists are making new discoveries about the planet Mercury. Data from MESSENGER , the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important clues to the origin of ... interior and exterior processes. NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft, or MESSENGER , has been orbiting Mercury since March 18. To date the spacecraft has provided tens of ...

... the planet during flybys in 1974 and 1975 ~ MESSENGER was the first spacecraft designed to examine Mercury while orbiting the planet. (Mark Carreau, “Messenger Leaves on 7-Year Voyage,” Houston Chronicle, 4 August 2004; NASA, “NASA Sending a Messenger to Mercury,” news release 04-215, 15 July ...

... , radiating over 100 flat-bottomed troughs. NASA intended MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging MESSENGER to begin orbiting Mercury in 2011. Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland had built MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging MESSENGER and was managing the craft for NASA. ''NASA, “NASA Spacecraft Streams Back Surprises from Mercury ...

... Mercury’s atmospheric composition and surface chemistry. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging MESSENGER images settled a scientific debate, which had been ongoing since the 1970s, regarding whether Mercury ... . This contraction had affected Mercury’s magnetic field. MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging MESSENGER ’s measurements showed that Mercury’s magnetic field is mostly dipolar, like that of Earth ...

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