Click here to create your personal news page. The news that appears on Mercury MY will appear there and be constantly updated. You can then modify the page, share it with your friends, or export it and have it appear elsewhere.
You can also create a personal news page and follow the news that interests you by clicking on the tab labelled 'New page'.
Yesterday, at 08:40 UTC, MESSENGER successfully completed its second flyby of Mercury. Today, at about 05:50 UTC, the images taken during the flyby encounter began to be received back on Earth. The spectacular image shown here is one of the first to be returned and shows a WAC image of the departing planet taken about 90 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach to Mercury.
The San Jose Mercury News on Thursday examined the legal merits of California's Proposition 4, which, if approved by state voters in November, would require physicians to notify parents before providing abortion services to minors. California voters have rejected similar measures in 2005 and 2006, but a Field Poll released last week found voters are narrowly favoring the 2008 initiative.
An unmanned Nasa spaceship the size of a car has made a low pass over the rocky surface of Mercury photographing areas which have never been seen before.
NASA MESSENGER Image: Mercury as Never Seen Before "Of Interest: Yesterday, at 4:40 am EDT, MESSENGER successfully completed its second flyby of Mercury. Today, at about 1:50 am EDT, the images taken during the flyby encounter began to be received back on Earth. The spectacular image shown here is one of the first to be returned and shows a WAC image of the departing planet taken about 90 minutes...
Here's the first image from MESSENGER's flyby of Mercury on Monday. The bright crater just south of the center of the image is Kuiper, which has been seen before on images from the Mariner 10 mission in the 1970s. But most of this image, to the east, or right of Kuiper, toward the limb of [...]
Earlier today, at 08:40 UTC, MESSENGER passed a mere 200 kilometers (124 miles) above Mercury's surface for its closest approach to the planet during the mission's second Mercury flyby. Now, the spacecraft is speeding away from Mercury, acquiring science observations as it goes. The planned flyby science observations continue for about 20 hours following closest approach, and only after the completion...
The judge presiding over Steve Armento's case said he would let the jury hear statements cops say he made about doctoring bullets with mercury. Those remarks also implicate his accused accomplice, "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato.
Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life Matador Fucked Up aren't out to save punk rock, and The Chemistry of Common Life wasn't recorded with the explicit purpose of saving punk rock, but...Let's say that something is wrong with punk rock today. Let's say that it needs to be moved out of Hot Topic and the shopping malls, and away from the summer camp for kids with bad hair cuts that is the Warped Tour....
Remember MESSENGER , the spacecraft under way to Mercury? On its complicated path that will make it the first satellite to enter into an orbit around the innermost planet, MESSENGER had its second close encounter with Mercury earlier today: At 08:40 UTC, the probe rushed past the planet at a height of 199.7 kilometers (124.1 miles) and a maximal velocity relative to Mercury of 6.616 km/s (4.111 miles...
At a little after 4:40 a.m. EDT, MESSENGER skimmed 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the surface of Mercury in the second of three flybys of the planet.
NASA's Messenger spacecraft approached Mercury yesterday and transmitted close-up pictures of the planet that is closest to the sun. The detailed images clearly show the gigantic craters and cliffs as well as a pattern of rays in the northern region of Mercury. Extra: SLIDESHOW
