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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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The MASCS instrument onboard NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft was designed to study both the exosphere and surface of Mercury in order to learn more about the minerals and surface processes on Mercury.
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Unmasking the Secrets of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is stitched together from thousands of observations made over the past 4 years by the MASCS/UVVS instrument, which measures sunlight scattered off of Mercury's tenuous atmosphere.
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Mercury's Sodium Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Calcium Exosphere
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Mercury's Calcium Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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Crossing Paths
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Crossing Paths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Mercury MESSENGER
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What a Scan!
PIA18559:
What a Scan!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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One a Penny, Two a Penny, Bright, Fresh Crater
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One a Penny, Two a Penny, Bright, Fresh Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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Out of the Basin. These images from NASA MESSENGER's MASCS (top) and MDIS (bottom) are of Rembrandt, Mercury's second largest impact basin.
PIA18639:
Out of the Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-18 Mercury MESSENGER
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You Can Crater on Me. This is a composite image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA18583:
You Can Crater on Me
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Waters, Waters Everywhere. Image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
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Waters, Waters Everywhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Peak-a-boo Eminescu. Images from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA18580:
Peak-a-boo Eminescu
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Web of Fire
PIA18529:
Web of Fire
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-23 Mercury MESSENGER
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Bright and Dark
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Bright and Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-21 Mercury MESSENGER
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Shine a Light on Me
PIA18180:
Shine a Light on Me
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-31 Mercury MESSENGER
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Spectral Fireworks
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Spectral Fireworks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-26 Mercury MESSENGER
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Spectral Web
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Spectral Web
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-19 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Other Colors
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Mercury's Other Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-12 Mercury MESSENGER
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One Year of Spectral Mapping
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One Year of Spectral Mapping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mapping Spectral Variations on Mercury with MASCS
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Mapping Spectral Variations on Mercury with MASCS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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The First Simultaneous Observations of Neutral and Ionized Calcium
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The First Simultaneous Observations of Neutral and Ionized Calcium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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Modeling the
PIA12367:
Modeling the "Seasons" of Mercury's Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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Calcium and Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
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Calcium and Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-03 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury Flyby 3 Reveals a Highly Diminished Sodium Tail
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Mercury Flyby 3 Reveals a Highly Diminished Sodium Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-31 Mercury MESSENGER
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A Movie of MESSENGER's Observations of Mercury's Exosphere
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A Movie of MESSENGER's Observations of Mercury's Exosphere Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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First Detection of Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
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First Detection of Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Comparing Mercury's Exosphere between Two Flybys
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Comparing Mercury's Exosphere between Two Flybys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-29 Mercury MESSENGER
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First Simultaneous Measurements of Sodium and Calcium in Mercury's Exosphere
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First Simultaneous Measurements of Sodium and Calcium in Mercury's Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-26 Mercury MESSENGER
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft approached Mercury, the UVVS field of view was scanned across the planet's exospheric tail, which is produced by the solar wind pushing Mercury's exosphere (the planet's extremely thin atmosphere) outward.
PIA11076:
Exploring Mercury's "Tail"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Sodium Tail
PIA10396:
Mercury's Sodium Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Seeking Information on Mercury's Mineralogy
PIA10382:
Seeking Information on Mercury's Mineralogy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Calcium was detected in the near-Mercury exosphere by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft and has also been observed telescopically from Earth.
PIA10199:
Mercury's Hydrogen Tail
Full Resolution:     TIFF (18.23 MB)     JPEG (200 kB)
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