16 October 2020
BepiColombo’s first glimpse of Venus
... 000 km of Venus. The image was taken by the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 3. The cameras provide black-and-white...to the spacecraft structure. The high-gain antenna of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter is also visible a the top of the view...
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... prospect of BepiColombo independently corroborating the detection made by Greaves and colleagues is tantalising, but if it turns out the Mercury probe is not suited to search for PH3, others such as Rocket Lab’s intended Venus mission and future...
17 April 2019
Wally Funk’s Race for Space
..., “a combination of politics and prejudice meant that none of the Mercury 13 ever flew into space”. In this book, journalist Sue Nelson...that, despite her own best efforts, the role of the Mercury 13 is not more widely known. This book should help...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
...which is the outermost one, fall within the orbit of Mercury. So we’ve been quite astounded with how many planets ... miniature solar system that would fit entirely inside the orbit of Mercury. The habitable zone of Kepler-186 is very small compared ...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... WFIRST’s sensitivity extends outward. As a result, WFIRST is sensitive to analogues of all the solar system’s planets, except for Mercury, while Kepler has primarily studied planetary systems very different from our own. The sensitivity of the...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... like Indiana Jones in the warehouse of treasures. Mercury heatshield samples and mission patches. Space-nut heaven...one first. Inside were pieces of heatshield, materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in...
