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[ Watch the Video: The 50th Anniversary of Planetary Exploration ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Fifty years ago this Friday, America's space exploration ushered in a new era when NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft became the first ever to study a planet other than our own. On December 14, 1962, Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to successfully make a close-up study of another planet. The event took place about 36 million miles away from Earth. To celebrate the...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A NASA spacecraft studying Mercury has provided compelling support for the long-held hypothesis the planet harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials within its permanently shadowed polar craters. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The new information comes from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. Its onboard instruments have...

In the news release, ATMC Cable TV and North State Communications Choose Mariner xVu(TM) to Ensure Superior TV Service Quality on Microsoft® Mediaroom® Deployments, issued 24-Oct-2012 by Mariner over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the sub-headline should read "Mariner's Video Service Oriented Monitoring(TM) (vSOM) Solution Dramatically Reduces Truck Rolls, Decreasing OPEX" rather than "Mariner's Video Service Oriented Monitoring(TM) (vSOM) Solution Dramatically Reduces...

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mariner, a global leader in IP video service monitoring and troubleshooting technologies, today announced that ATMC Cable TV of Shallotte, N.C., and North State Communications of High Point, N.C., have deployed the Mariner xVu(TM) suite of service monitoring products, including Mariner SupportVu(TM), Mariner NetworkVu(TM), and Mariner ReportVu(TM). Both ATMC and North State Communications are utilizing Mariner's award-winning Video Service...

John Neumann for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Eight years ago this month, in 2004, the MESSENGER space probe was launched on a six-and-a-half year, 4.9-billion mile journey to be the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury. The leisurely cruise included 15 trips around the Sun, a flyby of Earth, two flybys of Venus, and three flybys of Mercury. During its gravity assist swing-by of Earth, on August 2, 2005, Messenger’s cameras captured several hundred images of our planet....

In Roman mythology Mercury was the “Messenger of the Gods,” – as well as a god of trade, thieves and travel. It is thus fitting – apart from the trade and thieves aspect – that the MESSENGER program has been so carefully studying the inner most planet in our solar system. MErcury, Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) this week successfully completed a year-long mission to perform the first complete reconnaissance of the geochemistry, geophysics,...

NASA has announced that it will extend the MESSENGER mission for an additional year of orbital operations at Mercury beyond the planned end of the primary mission on March 17, 2012. The MESSENGER probe became the first spacecraft to orbit the innermost planet on March 18, 2011. "We are still ironing out the funding details, but we are pleased to be able to support the continued exploration of Mercury," said NASA MESSENGER Program Scientist Ed Grayzeck, who made the announcement on November...

MESSENGER scientists will highlight the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. These findings will be presented October 5 in 30 papers and posters as part of a special session of the joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Nantes, Frances. Scientists will also look ahead to MESSENGER observations still...

NASA announced on Thursday that its MESSENGER spacecraft has found new evidence that flood volcanism has been widespread on Mercury. New data from the spacecraft reveals that 6 percent of Mercury's total surface is covered by volcanic plains. "Analysis of the size of buried ‘ghost' craters in these deposits shows that the lavas are locally as thick as 2 kilometers" (or 1.2 miles), James Head of Brown University, the lead author of one of the reports published in Science, said in a...

On Wednesday, Sept. 7,  the MESSENGER spacecraft emerged unscathed from the second of four “hot seasons” expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit around Mercury. Hours later, mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., successfully executed a maneuver to adjust the spacecraft’s trajectory. “Operating MESSENGER in Mercury orbit is a bit like driving a high-performance automobile on a challenging track...