Asia Oceania Geosciences Conference 2016 July 31 – Aug 5, Beijing, China Conference website Abstract submission deadline: extended to March 4, 2016 Session Description: Recent years have provided us with […]
Microsymposium 57: Polar Volatiles on the Moon and Mercury: Nature, Evolution and Future Exploration The Woodlands Waterway Marriott, Montgomery Ballroom, The Woodlands, Texas, March 19-20, 2016. The Microsymposium 57 program […]
We are pleased to announce a session on Mercury at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 14–18, 2015. NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft completed more than four years […]
The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER has run out of fuel. With no way to make major adjustments to its orbit around the planet Mercury, the probe will smash into the surface […]
The launch of BepiColombo, an ESA mission to explore the planet Mercury in collaboration with the Japanese space agency, JAXA, is now planned to take place during a one month […]
The closest planet to the sun appears to get hit by a periodic meteor shower, possibly associated with a comet that produces multiple events annually on Earth. The clues pointing […]
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft has provided the first optical images of ice and other frozen volatile materials within permanently shadowed craters near Mercury’s north […]
The Planetary Data System is pleased to announce Release 12 of data collected by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission, including raw and calibrated products acquired […]
We invite contributions to a special session on Mercury at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 15–19, 2014. NASA’s MESSENGER mission, now nearing the fourth and final […]
On April 20, MESSENGER completed its 3,000th orbit of Mercury and moved closer to the planet than any spacecraft has been before, dropping to an altitude of 199 kilometers (123.7 […]
MESSENGER has now returned more than 200,000 images acquired from orbit about Mercury. The 1996 proposal for the mission promised a return of at least 1,000 images says Robert Gold, […]
“Venus and Mercury: Prospective Energy and Material Resources” is the 4th book in this series. Previous books focused on Mars, the Moon, and Asteroids. We would like to invite chapter […]
RELEASE : 13-178 WASHINGTON — At a meeting in Rome Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Enrico Saggese signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation […]