Here’s how it works. Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to visit Mercury. It showed close-up pictures of the sun's closest planetary neighbor and also did investigations of Mercury's ...

NASA’s Mariner 10 became the first space probe to fly by Mercury on March 29, 1974. It was launched on November 3, 1973, approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the ...

NASA's Messenger spacecraft snapped this photo of Mercury's crater Boccaccio ... has an unusual "hilly and lineated" texture that Mariner 10 team members called "weird terrain" upon seeing ...

Fifty years ago, humanity gained its first up-close glimpse of this battered world when NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft made the first of three Mercury encounters. Its seven science instruments ...

The two views of Mercury show much of the hemisphere not imaged by Mariner 10 with only small coverage gap in shadow along the terminators. Two of the most prominent lobate fault scarps are found ...

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This image is a map projection of an oblique view. At the time of Mariner 10’s first Mercury flyby, the planet’s prime meridian (line of zero-degree longitude) was about 10° on the night side ...

MESSENGER was only the second probe to venture to Mercury, and it came three decades after Mariner 10 completed a whistle-stop tour and three close-range flybys between 1974 and 1975. But Mariner ...

The Mercury Mariner is mechanically identical to the Ford Escape and both compact SUVs enter 2010 with minimal changes, as both were redesigned cosmetically in 2008 and received powertrain ...