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MESSENGER science results

Paolo View Member Profile	Sep 28 2011, 05:14 AM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004	to be announced Thursday and to be published in Science Friday. MESSENGER Reveals New Details of Planet Mercury this looks like a geeky cool Thursday (Thursday evening here in Europe): we have a WISE NEO update at 17 UTC and this MESSENGER teleconf at 18 UTC!

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jsheff View Member Profile	Oct 2 2011, 11:46 PM Post #2
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 14-June 05 From: Cambridge, MA Member No.: 411	How does finding all these volatiles on the surface of Mercury square with the "Late Heavy Bombardment" hypothesis? It would seem that, if there was such an event and it included Mercury, these volatiles on its surface would have been destroyed. Is LHB in trouble? - John Sheff Cambridge, MA

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Paolo MESSENGER science results Sep 28 2011, 05:14 AM

stevesliva http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/telecon7_mul... Sep 29 2011, 06:32 PM

Explorer1 The view from the surface must be like that as wel... Sep 29 2011, 06:52 PM

Phil Stooke I told you about those pits! - and check out t... Sep 29 2011, 07:46 PM

Paolo for lucky subscribers, Science papers are here htt... Sep 29 2011, 07:52 PM

Phil Stooke A few further thoughts on the pits for clarificati... Sep 29 2011, 09:32 PM

antipode Wow! Not only great presentations but a re... Sep 29 2011, 10:16 PM

JGodbaz Wow. Mercury really is more interesting than I exp... Sep 30 2011, 11:20 AM

nprev Nothing useful to say, but I must add: !... Sep 30 2011, 12:21 AM

belleraphon1 A volatile rich Mercury..... just WOW! Craig Sep 30 2011, 12:12 PM

Gsnorgathon Of course, at Mercury's surface temps, what co... Sep 30 2011, 03:54 PM

jsheff How does finding all these volatiles on the surfac... Oct 2 2011, 11:46 PM

nprev Gsnorgathon had an insightful comment about that; ... Oct 3 2011, 12:22 AM

belleraphon1 Thanks Gsnorgathon... Volatiles are relative. My r... Oct 4 2011, 12:07 AM

stevesliva Presentations and release available here: http://m... Oct 5 2011, 05:33 PM

stevesliva Hollows formed by hydrogen geysers? http://www.tec... Nov 2 2011, 12:26 AM

elakdawalla J. Marvin Herndon appears to be a crank. Never any... Nov 2 2011, 04:43 AM

antoniseb QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Nov 2 2011, 12:43 AM... Mar 22 2012, 06:03 PM

stevesliva http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/presscon11.h... Mar 21 2012, 06:00 PM

stevesliva Hollows on hills: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gall... Apr 10 2013, 08:19 PM

Explorer1 And now in 3D! http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ga... Apr 12 2013, 07:46 AM

Explorer1 New paper on the inner and outer core of Mercury b... Apr 19 2019, 06:37 PM

JRehling Really interesting! This got me quickly checki... Apr 19 2019, 08:07 PM

JRehling Take a break from Perseverance's studies relat... Oct 19 2021, 07:31 PM

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