21 November 2016
The grandest of canyons is found on Mercury with the aid of MESSENGER
... formed by a relatively recent impact – was found using stereo images from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. Its discovery reveals important clues as to the geologic history of the innermost...
27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
... crust had opened up. The only other spacecraft to visit Mercury was NASA’s MESSENGER probe. MESSENGER orbited Mercury over 4,000 times in four years before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface in 2015. Before its mission ended...
