MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging)
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11-29-12 MESSENGER Finds New Evidence for Water Ice at Mercury's Poles
10-04-12 MESSENGER Mission Receives Prestigious IAA Award
08-09-12 International Astronomical Union Approves Names for Nine Mercury Craters
08-03-12 MESSENGER Marks 8th Anniversary of Launch
06-22-12 MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury
05-22-12 MESSENGER Measures Waves at the Boundary of Mercury's Magnetosphere
05-08-12 MESSENGER Gains Deputy Principal Investigator
05-03-12 MESSENGER's Cameras Capture 100,000th Image from Mercury Orbit
04-26-12 Dr. Seuss, Alvin Ailey among the Names Selected for 23 Mercury Craters
04-20-12 MESSENGER Settles into Eight-Hour Orbit Around Mercury, Poised for New Discoveries
04-16-12 MESSENGER Adjusts Orbit for a Closer Look at Mercury
04-05-12 MESSENGER Images Debut on "The Big Bang Theory"
03-23-12 MESSENGER App Now Available
03-21-12 MESSENGER Provides New Look at Mercury's Landscape, Metallic Core, and Polar Shadows
03-19-12 MESSENGER Completes Primary Mission at Mercury, Settles in for Another Year
03-08-12 MESSENGER Team Delivers Data from First Full Mercury Solar Day to Planetary Data System
03-02-12 MESSENGER Modifies Orbit to Prepare for Extended Mission
02-03-12 Software Enables Efficient Planning of MESSENGER Observations
12-22-11 A Christmas Crater on Mercury
12-16-11 MESSENGER Among Discover Magazine's Top 100 Stories of 2011
12-05-11 MESSENGER Team Presents Latest Mercury Findings at AGU Fall Meeting
11-18-11 MESSENGER Recognized as "Best of What's New" by Popular Science
11-14-11 NASA Extends MESSENGER Mission
10-24-11 Fourth Orbit Adjustment Stretches MESSENGER's Orbit around Mercury
10-05-11 MESSENGER Team Presents New Mercury Findings at Planetary Conference
09-29-11 Orbital Observations of Mercury Reveal Flood Lavas, Hollows, and Unprecedented Surface Details
09-27-11 MESSENGER Reveals New Details of Planet Mercury
09-08-11 MESSENGER Team Delivers First Orbital Data to Planetary Data System
09-07-11 MESSENGER Navigates Second Hot Season, Executes Third Orbit-Correction Maneuver
08-17-11 APL Planetary Scientist Elected Fellow of Geological Society of America
08-15-11 MESSENGER Co-Investigator Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America
08-03-11 MESSENGER Marks Seventh Anniversary of Launch
07-27-11 MESSENGER Makes Another Successful Orbit Adjustment
07-05-11 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Honors MESSENGER Team Leaders
06-22-11 MESSENGER Science Team Member Receives NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal
06-16-11 MESSENGER Data from Mercury Orbit Confirm Theories, Offer Surprises
06-15-11 MESSENGER Adjusts Its Orbit around Mercury
06-13-11 MESSENGER Endures Its First Hot Season
06-10-11 NASA Releasing New Spacecraft Orbital Views of Mercury
05-06-11 100 Orbits and Counting
05-03-11 Measuring Mercury's Surface Composition
04-26-11 Profiling Polar Craters with the Mercury Laser Altimeter
04-19-11 Mercury's Exosphere: A Brief Overview
04-04-11 MESSENGER Kicks Off Yearlong Campaign of Mercury Science
03-29-11 MESSENGER Sends Back First Image of Mercury from Orbit
03-28-11 NASA to Release MESSENGER's First Orbital Images Of Mercury
03-21-11 Spacecraft Data Confirm MESSENGER Orbit and Operation
03-17-11 MESSENGER Begins Historic Orbit around Mercury
03-16-11 MESSENGER On Autopilot for Orbit Insertion
03-15-11 MESSENGER Primed for Mercury Orbit
03-10-11 NASA Media Telecon Previews First Spacecraft to Orbit Mercury
03-07-11 Ten Days from Mercury Orbit Insertion
02-18-11 A Solar System Family Portrait, from the Inside Out
02-17-11 One Month Until Mercury Orbit Insertion
06-15-10 MESSENGER Reveals New Information about Mercury's Exosphere, Volcanism, and Magnetic Substorms
12-18-09 MESSENGER Probe Earns Praise from Popular Press
11-03-09 MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory on Mercury
07-03-08 MESSENGER Settles Old Debates and Makes New Discoveries at Mercury
06-20-08 APL's Jim McAdams Named AIAA Engineer of the Year
04-28-08 Mercury Features Receive New Names
01-10-08 MESSENGER Set for Historic Mercury Flyby
06-05-07 MESSENGER Completes Second Flyby of Venus, Makes Its Way toward First Flyby of Mercury in 33 Years
12-12-05 MESSENGER Engine Burn Puts Spacecraft on Track for Venus
08-26-05 Movie Headlines MESSENGER Earth Flyby Gallery
05-31-05 MESSENGER Peeks at Earth
07-15-04 NASA Sending a MESSENGER to Mercury
03-09-04 MESSENGER Spacecraft Shipped to the Cape
12-19-03 MESSENGER Shipped to Goddard for Prelaunch Testing
10-07-03 Students to Get an Inside Look at NASA's First Mercury Orbiter Mission
03-29-02 NASA's MESSENGER Project Cleared to Build Spacecraft
06-07-01 NASA OKs Final Development for MESSENGER Mission
07-07-99 APL-Managed Mission to Mercury Selected for NASA Discovery Program Flight
11-13-98 MESSENGER and Aladdin Missions Selected as NASA Discovery Program Candidates