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Showing posts with label Messenger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Messenger. Show all posts

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Most interesting studies of the interplanetary station "Messenger"

August 3, 2004 was launched interplanetary station "Messenger". Its aim was to study the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. The unit flew to the hot planet 7 years, and only in 2011 it entered the orbit. For two years in orbit, he was able to do a lot of images of Mercury's surface, collected and handed over a huge amount of information on the Earth. Powerful Space probe "Messenger" is equipped with a dual-mode camera, spectrometers, four species, altimeter, and a magnetometer.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

MESSENGER sees the smooth side of Mercury


During the two years of its location in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has made ​​more than 150,000 images of the planet closest to the Sun, the solar system, first giving us the opportunity to think about the extremely rough, parched surface of the planet in feature. But not all areas on Mercury look stern and sinister: it also has a smooth side, you can see on the picture, published today.

Here we see the smooth sides and bottom Mercurian irregular depressions in high definition. 

Friday, June 1, 2012

Mercury appears to be less mountainous than the Moon and Mars


According to an article published in the journal Science, Mercury appears to be less mountainous than the Moon and Mars and the bowels of the planet from the Sun, with deep reserves of iron sulfide, are very different from the others in our system. The publication includes two studies from the information sent by the spacecraft "Messenger" a year ago became the first artificial satellite of Mercury and has been making observations of the topography and gravitational field in the northern hemisphere .