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Mercury
News Archive and updates on Mercury’s dark surface crust, micro-meteor showers, Mercury ice sheets, Water Ice Iron on Mercury, magnetosphere, tectonically active, Missions Mariner 10, MESSENGER, BepiColombo, Molten Shower Mercury and more..
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Oct 21, 2018The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the mysteries of the Solar System’s innermost planet. -
Oct 17, 2018The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft will launch towards Mercury carrying a unique payload designed and built at Southwest Research Institute: an instrument called Strofio, which will study Mercury’s tenuous exosphere. -
May 1, 2018Michael Sori, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, used careful mathematical calculations to determine the density of Mercury’s crust, which is thinner than anyone thought. -
Apr 13, 2018NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, speaks to planetary scientists Faith Vilas about Mercury and what it can tell us about planet formation. -
Oct 1, 2017Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers. -
Sep 21, 2017Researchers have found new evidence of ice sheets in permanently shadowed craters near the north pole of Mercury. -
Sep 26, 2016New NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet. -
Jul 1, 2016New research suggests that Mercury may partly be composed of an enstatite chondrite — a type of meteorite that is extremely rare here on Earth. -
May 9, 2016NASA’s MESSENGER mission has unveiled the first global digital elevation model of Mercury, paving the way for scientists to fully characterize Mercury’s geologic history. -
Jun 8, 2015The area hosting Mercury may once have held as many as four rocky planets. Violent collisions could have left it the last survivor.
