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MESSENGER's First Mercury Flyby Reveals a "Whole New Planet"
Just two weeks after MESSENGER's first flyby of Mercury, the mission's science team presented their first impressions from the long-awaited second look at the innermost planet.
First science results from the MESSENGER Mercury flyby
First science results from the MESSENGER Mercury flyby
Hubble is pointing at 2007 WD5 (and Mars) tomorrow
Hubble is pointing at 2007 WD5 (and Mars) tomorrow
Asteroid near misses are disconcertingly common
Asteroid near misses are disconcertingly common
Back-of-the-envelope calculations on Mercury
Back-of-the-envelope calculations on Mercury
Pluto is still a long, long way away
Pluto is still a long, long way away
I spy Callisto
I spy Callisto
Teeny little Bigfoot on Mars
The story of a Sasquatch-shaped rock visible in a recent panorama from Spirit is getting a lot of play in the mainstream media, but fortunately, it's not being taken very seriously. (My favorite take on this picture is the lead from the Times Online story about it:
Mercury in color
Mercury in color
Playing around with some New Horizons data
Playing around with some New Horizons data
MESSENGER's First Mercury Flyby Highly Successful
On the evening of Tuesday, January 15, the MESSENGER science team crowded around a computer screen, anxiously awaiting their first view of the previously unseen hemisphere of Mercury.
Looking over Mercury's limb
Looking over Mercury's limb
New MESSENGER image release: Mercury at high resolution
New MESSENGER image release: Mercury at high resolution
Things I think are cool in the first MESSENGER image of Mercury
Things I think are cool in the first MESSENGER image of Mercury
MESSENGER image released after all!
MESSENGER image released after all!
MESSENGER update: no image until tomorrow morning
MESSENGER update: no image until tomorrow morning
From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape
In the beginning was SETI@home, the first large-scale volunteer computing project, launched in 1999 with seed money from The Planetary Society. Within months the project had millions of volunteers around the world joining to form the most powerful computer network ever assembled.
MESSENGER's signal has been reacquired!
MESSENGER's signal has been reacquired!
MESSENGER has (probably) disappeared (but it's coming back)
MESSENGER has (probably) disappeared (but it's coming back)
Just a million kilometers away
Just a million kilometers away