Looking forward to MESSENGER's third flyby of Mercury

I've just posted a news story containing more detail than most of you probably want on the science plans for the upcoming MESSENGER Mercury flyby, which will happen at 21:55 UTC on September 29. Go read! They're getting tricky with their science planning now.

There are two good places to watch real-time simulations of the encounter. As usual, Daniel Muller has a marvelous real-time countdown clock on his website. (Note his site will also have images of the simulated view of Mercury, once JPL's Solar System Simulator is back online. It's currently down but I'm told it should be back up in a couple of days.) And when it gets closer to the most exciting close-approach phase, the MESSENGER Dynamic Visualization Tool will give real-time updates on where MESSENGER's instruments are staring.

At present, MESSENGER is doing far-distance of imaging of Mercury, gathering data on its phase curve -- how its brightness and spectral properties change with a change in solar illumination angle. Here's a map showing how MESSENGER will be filling in about 5% more of its imaging coverage during this flyby, leaving only the poles un-imaged.

EDIT: Well now Science magazine has lifted its embargo on the water-on-the-Moon news. I'm seeking copies of the three formerly embargoed papers -- can anybody help me out? Science magazine doesn't think I'm a real journalist because The Society is an advocacy organization, not a news organization, so they don't let me have access to the embargoed publications the way they do for most other space writers.