Unmasking the secrets of Mercury, in color Date: April 28, 2015 Source: NASA Summary: The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific ...

Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system, even smaller than the (dwarf) planet Pluto. It takes less than 90 days to orbit the Sun, and it has what’s called a 3-to-2 spin-orbit resonance , ...

Mercury In Color Date: January 26, 2008 ... This visible-infrared image shows an incoming view of Mercury, about 80 minutes before MESSENGER's closest pass of the planet on January 14, ...

Different types of rock on Mercury’s surface show up in subtle color variations through MESSENGER’s 11 color filters. This false-color mosaic of the planet’s eastern limb shows obvious ...

Mercury in Color. By ... (MDIS), is equipped with 11 narrow-band color filters, ... about 80 minutes before MESSENGER’s closest pass of the planet on January 14, 2008, ...

One week ago, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft transmitted to Earth the first high-resolution image of Mercury by a spacecraft in over 30 years, since the three Mercury flybys of Mariner 10 in 1974 and ...

Mercury then lies 18° east of the Sun and stands 11° high 30 minutes after sunset. ... The seventh planet sports a distinctive blue-green color on a disk that spans 3.5″.

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is the first to orbit Mercury, the small planet close to the sun. The very bright crater at the top of the picture is the Dominici crater. Scientists studying the data ...

Using data collected by NASA's Messenger mission between 2010 and 2015, scientists plotted a color-coded map of the Victoria Quadrangle, a crater-filled region in Mercury's northern hemisphere ...

The planet is usually an inky color, but the images from NASA are mapped out in psychedelic colors to give space enthusiasts everywhere a chance to clearly see the planet's surface.

Analyses of data from the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft’s second flyby of Mercury in October 2008 show that the planet’s atmosphere ...