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This Is Not the Moon
After its first Mercury solar day (176 Earth days) in orbit, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has nearly completed two of its main global imaging campaigns: a monochrome map at 250 m/pixel and an...
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A Solar System Family Portrait
Earlier I posted a picture of the Earth taken by Voyager1 looking back toward home. That image is the most popular picture that I’ve posted here on Hogewash! The picture above was assembled from images...
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Sesame Street in Space
The MESSEGER spacecraft has sent this picture of a crater on Mercury. Behold–the Cookie Monster crater! Image Credit: NASA
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A Solar Day on Mercury
After its first Mercury solar day (176 Earth days) in orbit around the planet closest to the Sun, MESSENGER has nearly completed two of its main global imaging campaigns: a monochrome map at 250...
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Mercury’s Minerals
This false color view of Mercury was put together using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER‘s primary mission. The colors are not what Mercury would look like to the human...
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Taking Mercury for a Spin
All the surface of planet Mercury has now been mapped. Detailed observations of the planet have been being made since the MESSENGER spacecraft first flew by Mercury in 2008 and entered orbit in 2011....
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An Elliptical Crater
Most craters are more or less circular. This is Hovnatanian crater on Mercury, named for Armenian painter Hakop Hovnatanian. The crater’s elliptical shape and the bright rays’ butterfly pattern...
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Leaving Home
What it would look like to leave the Earth? The MESSENGER spacecraft took the images that make up this time-lapse video while it was on its way toward the planet Mercury. Earth is seen rotating as it...
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Look on the Sunny Side
This view of Mercury’s horizon was taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit around the planet. It was acquired looking from the shadows toward the sunlit side of the planet.A 120-km impact crater...
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A Day on Mercury
This animation shows wide-angle camera images of Mercury’s south polar region taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft over one complete Mercury solar day (176 Earth days). This dataset enabled the...
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This Isn’t the Moon
It’s Mercury. The MESSENGER spacecraft captured images used to make this video during a flyover of the planet’s north pole on 8 June, 2014. The images were taken once per second while the spacecraft...
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Just Passing By
The MESSENGER spacecraft ran out of maneuvering fuel some time ago, and on 30 April, it crashed into Mercury. It had been orbiting the planet for several years. During it’s trip to Mercury, MESSENGER...
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A Valley on Mercury
This animation of a 3-D perspective view of Mercury’s great valley was constructed from an image mosaic taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft. The image mosaic transforms into a colorized digital elevation...
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This video is a compilation of thousands of images taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft of Mercury. It’s rendered in exaggerated colors to highlight different surface features. Rays emanating from a...
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C is for Crater
The MESSEGER spacecraft took this picture of a crater on Mercury. Behold—the Cookie Monster crater! Image Credit: NASA
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