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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-30 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer
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MESSENGER Explores Interactions between Mercury's Magnetosphere and the Solar Wind
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MESSENGER Explores Interactions between Mercury's Magnetosphere and the Solar Wind
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-31 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer
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A Movie of Magnetometer Measurements from the Second Mercury Flyby
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A Movie of Magnetometer Measurements from the Second Mercury Flyby Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer (MAG)
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First Magnetometer Measurements from Mercury Orbit
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First Magnetometer Measurements from Mercury Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer (MAG)
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Mercury's Magnetic Field Lines
PIA14342:
Mercury's Magnetic Field Lines
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer (MAG)
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Movie of Mercury's Magnetic Equator Versus Longitude
PIA14346:
Movie of Mercury's Magnetic Equator Versus Longitude
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-22 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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During its flyby of Mercury, on January 14, 2008 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft acquired the first high-resolution spectra of the planet's surface in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light.
PIA10188:
First MESSENGER Spectrum of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-10 Mercury Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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This frame from an animation shows five versions of observations that NASA's Curiosity made about one hour apart while Mercury was passing in front of the sun on June 3, 2014. Two sunspots, each about the diameter of Earth, also appear.
PIA18389:
Mercury Transit of the Sun, Seen From Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Mercury Mars 2020 Rover
Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture Mercury – seen as a tiny speck – passing in front of the Sun on Oct. 28, 2023.
PIA26250:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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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
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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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
MASCS
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Mercury's Sodium Tail
PIA10396:
Mercury's Sodium Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-26 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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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 2008-10-29 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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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 2008-10-30 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Comparing Mercury's Exosphere between Two Flybys
PIA11407:
Comparing Mercury's Exosphere between Two Flybys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-30 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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First Detection of Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
PIA11409:
First Detection of Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-31 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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A Movie of MESSENGER's Observations of Mercury's Exosphere
PIA11415:
A Movie of MESSENGER's Observations of Mercury's Exosphere Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-03 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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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 2009-11-05 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Calcium and Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
PIA12366:
Calcium and Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-05 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Modeling the
PIA12367:
Modeling the "Seasons" of Mercury's Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-06 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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The First Simultaneous Observations of Neutral and Ionized Calcium
PIA12369:
The First Simultaneous Observations of Neutral and Ionized Calcium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-05 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Mapping Spectral Variations on Mercury with MASCS
PIA14866:
Mapping Spectral Variations on Mercury with MASCS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-12 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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One Year of Spectral Mapping
PIA15585:
One Year of Spectral Mapping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-19 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Mercury's Other Colors
PIA15612:
Mercury's Other Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-26 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Spectral Web
PIA15618:
Spectral Web
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-31 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Spectral Fireworks
PIA16668:
Spectral Fireworks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-21 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Shine a Light on Me
PIA18180:
Shine a Light on Me
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-14 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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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 2014-07-16 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Waters, Waters Everywhere. Image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA18582:
Waters, Waters Everywhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-18 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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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 2015-04-14 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Mercury's Calcium Exosphere
PIA19284:
Mercury's Calcium Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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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.
PIA19418:
Mercury's Sodium Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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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.
PIA19419:
Unmasking the Secrets of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-23 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Bright and Dark
PIA18527:
Bright and Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-27 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Web of Fire
PIA18529:
Web of Fire
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-04 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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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 2014-08-06 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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One a Penny, Two a Penny, Bright, Fresh Crater
PIA18556:
One a Penny, Two a Penny, Bright, Fresh Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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What a Scan!
PIA18559:
What a Scan!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-25 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Crossing Paths
PIA18689:
Crossing Paths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System
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Identifying Lava Flow Fronts on Mercury
PIA14846:
Identifying Lava Flow Fronts on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System
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Spectacular Volcanic Features on Mercury
PIA14848:
Spectacular Volcanic Features on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-10-29 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System
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A World View
PIA16298:
A World View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-30 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Sublime Sublimation, Not Subliminal
PIA14856:
Sublime Sublimation, Not Subliminal
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-22 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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An Optical Illusion
PIA16343:
An Optical Illusion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-02 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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A Shocking Discovery
PIA16349:
A Shocking Discovery
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-14 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Running Up that Hill
PIA16536:
Running Up that Hill
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Ridge and Trough System on Mercury
PIA16540:
Ridge and Trough System on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Goethe Basin
PIA16539:
Goethe Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Graben in Goethe Basin
PIA16541:
Graben in Goethe Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-22 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Global Coverage
PIA16858:
Global Coverage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-06 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Breaking Mercury
PIA16866:
Breaking Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-14 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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A Tribute to MESSENGER: Video
PIA16893:
A Tribute to MESSENGER: Video Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-15 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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At the Mountains of Madness
PIA16957:
At the Mountains of Madness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-19 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Starry Hour
PIA16992:
Starry Hour
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-28 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Where is MESSENGER?
PIA17228:
Where is MESSENGER?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-31 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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100% Coverage
PIA17230:
100% Coverage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-10 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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1,000 Featured Images!
PIA17457:
1,000 Featured Images!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-31 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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2013 in MESSENGER Images
PIA17828:
2013 in MESSENGER Images
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-01 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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A View of MESSENGER's Flight Path. This figure highlights the flight path of NASA's MESSENGER during its acquisition of images used in its flyover movie.
PIA18637:
A View of MESSENGER's Flight Path
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-19 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Water Ice Data Exploration (WIDE) Tool
PIA18958:
Water Ice Data Exploration (WIDE) Tool
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-29 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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2014 in MESSENGER Images
PIA19001:
2014 in MESSENGER Images
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-05 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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A Change of Perspective
PIA19002:
A Change of Perspective
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-23 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft of the mighty Caloris basin, Mercury's youngest large impact basin. Caloris has been filled by volcanic plains that are distinctive in color from the surrounding terrain.
PIA19213:
The Mighty Caloris
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-25 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER of Caloris basin is an enhanced-color composite overlain on a monochrome mosaic. It is made up of images obtained when both the spacecraft and the Sun were overhead, conditions best for discerning variat in albedo.
PIA19216:
All About That Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Enterprise Rupes
PIA19243:
Enterprise Rupes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This view captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows Mercury's north polar region, colored by the maximum biannual surface temperature, which ranges from >400 K (red) to 50 K (purple).
PIA19247:
Hot and Cold
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-10 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Carnegie Rupes makes a dramatic sight in this large image mosaic taken by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The giant lobate scarp cuts through Duccio crater.
PIA19279:
Carnegie Cuts a Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This series of oblique images captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft highlight the wall and exterior of the beautiful volcanic vent located to the northeast of Rachmaninoff basin and west of Copland crater.
PIA19282:
Hyper Vent-ilating
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-14 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the large Rustaveli basin on the right portion of the view. Named in 2012 after Shota Rustaveli, a Georgian poet of the 12th century, this basin has a smooth floor and hints of a peak-ring structure.
PIA19283:
Regard Rustaveli
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-15 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Gravity Anomalies
PIA19285:
Gravity Anomalies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-15 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Hokusai crater's rays extend across much of the planet, but its interior is spectacular in its own right. This series of oblique images from NASAs MESSENGER shows the central peaks, beautiful terraces, and frozen sea of impact melt on the crater floor.
PIA19406:
Hokusai Spectacular!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft provides a detailed view of the features and structures associated with the peak-ring basin Raditladi.
PIA19409:
A Detailed Look at Raditladi Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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One of the most captivating views acquired during NASA's MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby was of the crater Apollodorus surrounded by the radiating troughs of Pantheon Fossae.
PIA19410:
The Architect and His Temple
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This orthographic projection view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft provides a look at Mercury's north polar region. The yellow regions in many of the craters mark locations that show evidence for water ice, as detected by Earth-based radar observations.
PIA19411:
Water Ice on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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In this enhanced color view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft of the peak-ring basin Derain, the different colors accentuate the different rocks associated with the basin.
PIA19412:
Dramatic Darks of Derain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This image mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows an unnamed ridge in the northern volcanic plains of Mercury. Wrinkle ridges like this are interpreted to be tectonic in origin and are usually only found in volcanic plains.
PIA19413:
Wrinkles on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Mercury's northern region is dominated by expansive smooth plains, created by huge amounts of volcanic material flooding across Mercury's surface in the past, as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19415:
Expansive Northern Volcanic Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is an orthographic projection of Mercury's south polar region, colored by an illumination map; the center of the image is within the interior of the crater Chao Meng-Fu.
PIA19416:
Shadows in the South
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This mosaic of oblique images from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft highlights the spectacular interior of Abedin crater. The crater floor is covered with once-molten rock melted by the impact event that formed Abedin.
PIA19423:
Awesome Abedin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-30 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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On March 18, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER made history by becoming the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury. Eleven days later, the spacecraft captured the first image ever obtained from Mercury orbit, shown here on the left.
PIA19449:
From the First to the Last
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-03 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Best Determination of MESSENGER's Impact Location
PIA19497:
Best Determination of MESSENGER's Impact Location
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-11 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
MLA
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New QuickMap Feature: 3-D!
PIA17379:
New QuickMap Feature: 3-D!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft provides a perspective view of the center portion of Carnegie Rupes, a large tectonic landform, which cuts through Duccio crater.
PIA19422:
A Striking Perspective
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Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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The large, 400-kilometer-diameter (250-mile-diameter), impact basin Shakespeare occupies the bottom left quarter of this image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
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Overview of the Impact Region
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These graphics show the current best prediction of the location and time of NASA's MESSENGER's impact on Mercury's surface. These current best estimates are: Date: 30 April 2015 Time: 3:26:02 pm EDT (19:26:02 UTC Latitude: 54.4° N Longitude: 210.1° E.
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Details of MESSENGER's Impact Location
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In this perspective view, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft looked northwest over the Caloris Basin, a depression about 1500 km in diameter formed several billion years ago by the impact of a large projectile into the surface of Mercury.
PIA19450:
In Tribute
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MDIS - Narrow Angle
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On January 9, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft snapped one of its first images of Mercury at a distance of about 2.7 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from the planet.
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MESSENGER Readies for its Encounter with Mercury
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft continued to speed toward Mercury, preparing for its closest approach to the planet on Monday, January 14, 2008.
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MESSENGER Closes in on Mercury
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With just two days until NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's closest pass by Mercury, the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) is acquiring sets of images twice a day.
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MESSENGER Nears Mercury
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With just one day until NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's historic flyby of Mercury, MESSENGER has Mercury clearly in its sights. The Narrow Angle Camera, part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), took this image on January 12, 2008.
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MESSENGER has Mercury in its Sights
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On January 14, 2008, at 19:04:39 UTC (2:04:39 pm EST), NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft experienced its closest approach to Mercury, passing just 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the planet's surface.
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Countdown to MESSENGER's Closest Approach with Mercury
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft approached Mercury for its first flyby, the Narrow Angle Camera, part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument acquired the nine images shown here taken from January 9 to 13, 2008.
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Rendezvous with Mercury Animation Icon
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During its flyby of Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft acquired high-resolution images of the planet's surface. This image was obtained on January 14, 2008.
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Mercury's Cratered Surface
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Just 21 minutes after NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's closest approach to Mercury, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) took this picture showing a variety of intriguing surface features, including craters as small as about 400 meters (about 400 yards) across.
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Detailed Close-up of Mercury's Previously Unseen Surface
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As NASA's MESSENGER approached Mercury on January 14, 2008, the spacecraft's Narrow-Angle Camera on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument captured this view of the planet's rugged, cratered landscape illuminated obliquely by the Sun.
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MESSENGER Reveals Mercury in New Detail
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired an image mosaic of the sunlit portion of the planet.
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MESSENGER Views Mercury's Horizon
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Shortly following NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's closest approach to Mercury on January 14, 2008, the spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) instrument acquired this image as part of a mosaic that covers much of the sunlit portion of the hemisphere.
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MESSENGER Reveals Mercury's Geological History
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The image shows part of a large, fresh crater with secondary crater chains located near Mercury's equator on the side of the planet newly imaged on January 14, 2008 by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
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Mercury's Complex Cratering History
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A complex history of geological evolution is recorded in this frame from the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument, taken during NASA's MESSENGER's close flyby of Mercury on January 14, 2008.
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Ridges and Cliffs on Mercury's Surface
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired this view of Mercury's surface illuminated obliquely from the right by the Sun.
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MESSENGER Views an Intriguing Crater
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On January 14, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft passed 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the surface of Mercury and snapped the first pictures of a side of Mercury not previously seen, with a view looking toward Mercury's south pole.
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Looking Toward the South Pole of Mercury
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