Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for breaking science news. The planet Mercury is about to make its best apparition of the year for backyard sky watchers.
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With wrinkled crust and cracked filling, the unusual formations are unlike anything seen on other rocky planets...
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The waves in the magnetic field around Mercury are stronger and more frequent than those around Earth...
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The highest-resolution radar image of Mercury’s north polar region made from the Arecibo Observatory (Harmon et al., Icarus, 211, 37-50, 2011) is shown in yellow on a mosaic of MESSENGER orbital images.
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A new study suggests that a violent collision with an asteroid might have set the planet Mercury spinning oddly in its orbit.
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While watching a video of a coronal mass ejection travel from the sun, it would appear that a solar observatory has discovered a massive alien spacecraft...
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Wow -- just wow! Here’s a unique, jaw-dropping, and beautiful look at Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft, in a mosaic created from nine images taken by the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS).
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury.
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Planetary scientists have discovered vast, smooth plains around Mercury's north pole that were created by volcanic activity more than 3.5 billion years ago.
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A recent image acquired by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the interior of Eminescu, a youngish 130-km (80 mile) wide crater just north of Mercury's equator.
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The MESSENGER satellite left Earth in 2004 and began its orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. New images show areas of the planet's surface never seen at close range. Over the next year MESSENGER will map the entire surface of the planet and send back other valuable data.
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In the past, because of its proximity to the Sun, it has been difficult for Earth-based telescopes to observe Mercury against the ferocious solar light. In 2015, to increase our understanding of this mysterious planet, Europe is launching BepiColombo, the first dedicated mission to Mercury. It will reach its destination in 2022. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year.
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Researchers have discovered a new culprit likely involved in Earth's greatest extinction event: an influx of mercury into the ecosystem.
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The video footage posted on YouTube (below) taken by the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1), a camera system aboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft, managed to capture what looks like a large cylindrical object orbiting the planet Mercury.
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New telescope footage shows a coronal mass ejection blasting Mercury. UFO researchers say it has also unveiled a cloaked spaceship parked near the planet, but scientists say the strange, planet-size object is just an image processing artifact.
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NASA has announced that it will extend the MESSENGER mission for an additional year of orbital operations at Mercury beyond the planned end of the primary mission on March 17, 2012. The MESSENGER probe became the first spacecraft to orbit the innermost planet on March 18, 2011.
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NASA's MESSENGER mission is turning up more questions than answers as it photographs strange recently-formed features on Mercury's surface.
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The first part of this video already happened, but the second part is very interesting. CB