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Mission Elapsed Time
August 3, 2004
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Time since Closest Approach
Mercury Orbit Insertion
March 18, 2011
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Countdown to Insertion Burn
Current Total Distance Traveled

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Mission News

November 3, 2009
MESSENGER SPACECRAFT REVEALS MORE HIDDEN TERRITORY ON MERCURY
WASHINGTON -- A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of the planet Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown planet. [more]

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November 6, 2009
A Newly Identified Candidate for an Explosive Volcanic Vent on Mercury
November 6, 2009
The First Simultaneous Observations of Neutral and Ionized Calcium
November 6, 2009
Looking in Detail at a Spectacular Double-Ring Basin