Space agencies worldwide are gearing up missions in 2025 to expand humanity's horizons, from the moon and Mars to asteroids ...

Mercury is the least explored of the four rocky planets in the inner Solar System. It wasn’t until 2011 that NASA’s MESSENGER ...

While Project Mercury failed in the second aim, it did provide the technological basis for more challenging missions in the Gemini and Apollo programs. It also turned the seven original astronauts ...

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

The first observations from MERTIS revealed that certain areas of Mercury’s surface shine brighter in the mid-infrared than others. More specifically, the Caloris Basin and parts of a large volcanic ...

"The moment when we first looked at the MERTIS flyby data and could immediately distinguish impact craters was breathtaking!" ...

The spacecraft collected new data on Mercury using its Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer, or MERTIS. The instrument captured details of Mercury at mid-infrared wavelengths, in which ...

For this follow-on program, Mercury will replace and upgrade the existing processing capabilities provided by another firm with the enhanced performance and security that its Common Processing ...

This was the first time that any spacecraft measured what Mercury looks like in mid-infrared wavelengths of light (7–14 micrometers). The data that MERTIS will collect throughout the mission ...