CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Detailed maps of Mercury’s cliffs and ditches show the solar system’s innermost and smallest planet Mercury has lost much more real estate due to cooling ...

Scientists use images from NASA's Messenger spacecraft to create these global views of Mercury, the most complete maps ever. The images were released on Feb. 22, 2013.

A colorful view of Mercury produced using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission. These colors are not what Mercury would look like to the human eye ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Detailed maps of Mercury's cliffs and ditches show the solar system's innermost and smallest planet Mercury has lost much more real estate due to cooling over four ...

New Mercury surface composition maps illuminate the planet's history. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 03 / 150313110434.htm ...

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 map displays in great detail the topographicalcharacteristics of the tortured planet, most notably the vast collection of impact craters that have accrued in part thanks to Mercury's lack of ...

Washington, D.C.-Two new papers from members of the MESSENGER Science Team provide global-scale maps of Mercury's surface chemistry that reveal previously unrecognized geochemical terranes ...

The surface of the planet Mercury has been completely mapped for the first time in history, scientists say. The closest planet to the sun hasn't received as much scientific attention as some of ...

Check out Mercury in all its psychedelic glory. This colorful image comes courtesy of the Mercury Atmosphere and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) instrument aboard NASA's Messenger spacecraft.

The surface of the planet Mercury has been completely mapped for the first time in history, scientists say. The closest planet to the sun hasn't received as much scientific attention as some of ...