Open AccessMercury's Secrets Revealed by Soon-to-Crash Spacecraft
Author(s) -
JoAnna Wendel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2015eo029165
Subject(s) - mercury (programming language) , spacecraft , crash , astrobiology , aeronautics , environmental science , aerospace engineering , computer science , engineering , physics , operating system , programming language
From finding water ice on Mercury to discovering magnetic field lines cutting through the planet, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has spent its lifetime unveiling Mercury's secrets.