Little more than three weeks after MESSENGER’s first historic flyby of Mercury, the team this week began mapping out its trajectory and observation plans for the probe’s second pass of the planet this ...
The solar system’s neglected stepchild until recently, the planet has now been scrutinized twice at close range by the MESSENGER spacecraft. The craft’s most recent flyby, on October 6, 2008, has ...
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft swung by Venus for the second time early this evening for a gravity assist that shrank the radius of its ...