This mosaic of Caloris basin on Mercury is an enhanced-color composite overlain on a monochrome mosaic.NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
A depiction of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown passing near the crater Hokusai and its extensive system of rays.NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury could be contracting today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet.NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington/USGS/Arizona State University
MESSENGER features in Issue #3 of Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe, available at: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/resources/graphic-histories/Aaron L. Gronstal, NASA Astrobiology
Mission name: MESSENGER
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
Unlocking the mysteries of planet Mercury
Mission news and discoveries
