The MESSENGER mission to Mercury: Scientific objectives and implementation

By Sean C. Solomon, R. McNutt, R. Gold, Mario H. Acuna, D. N. Baker, W. Boynton, Clark R. Chapman, A. Cheng, G. Gloeckler, James W. Head III and 11 more. 2001

373 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3b71515359b755aa4ccf996f4639cbb7dfa56ab2

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Astronomy and Astrophysics

In Atmospheric Science

Citations in the corpus

Evidence for geochemical terranes on Mercury: Global mapping of major elements with MESSENGER's X-Ray Spectrometer (2015, methodology): “Since the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft (Solomon et al., 2001) was inserted into orbit around Mercury on 18 March 2011, its suite of instruments has been used to make measurements of the planet’s surface composition.”
Gravity and Topography of the Terrestrial Planets (2015, methodology): “MESSENGER has since acquired a wealth of topographic data by means of satellite laser altimetry (Smith et al., 2010c; Zuber et al., 2008, 2012), stereophotogrammetry (Preusker et al., 2011), optical limb measurements (Oberst et al., 2011), and spacecraft radio occultations (Perry et al., 2011).”
Precession of Mercury’s Perihelion from Ranging to the MESSENGER Spacecraft (2017, background): “…the current state of knowledge of the precession of Mercury’s perihelion and associated physical parameters determined from the ranging measurements acquired by the MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft (Solomon et al. 2001; Smith et al. 2012).”
MESSENGER Mission Overview (2007, methodology): “MDIS will carry out an extensive campaign of imaging during each approach and departure (Solomon et al. 2001), and the geometry of the flybys (McAdams et al. 2007) are such that much of the surface unseen by Mariner 10 will have been imaged by the end of the second flyby (Hawkins et al. 2007).”
COMBINED STEREO/RHESSI STUDY OF CORONAL MASS EJECTION ACCELERATION AND PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN SOLAR FLARES (2010, background): “For that day, MESSENGER (Solomon et al. 2001) is at a heliographic longitude of about E165 and observed the non-occulted flare in soft-X rays (similar to GOES).”
The Magnetometer Instrument on MESSENGER (2007, background): “Conducting these measurements is one of the primary objectives of the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission (Solomon et al. 2001; Gold et al. 2001).”
The Mercury Laser Altimeter Instrument for the MESSENGER Mission (2007, background): “…heat from the Sun will require the spacecraft to have its sunshade facing the Sun at all times, which during noon–midnight orbits will confine the payload deck to point within 10° about the normal to Mercury’s orbital plane with MLA ranging at a slant angle as high as 50° (Solomon et al. 2001).”
The X-Ray Spectrometer on the MESSENGER Spacecraft (2007, background): “Mercury has been difficult to study because of its close proximity to the Sun, but its chemical composition is important for the clues it offers to the formation of the planets (Solomon et al. 2001).”
The Magnetic Field of Mercury (2010, background): “The flybys of Mercury by NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft (Solomon et al. 2001, 2007) on 14 January and 6 October 2008 have yielded new magnetic field observations (Anderson et al. 2007, 2008b; Slavin et al. 2008, 2009a, 2009b) and the…”
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Overview: The Instrument Suite and Mission (2007, methodology): “2) is similar to the designs of the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (Smith et al. 2001) and the Mercury Laser Altimeter (Solomon et al. 2001); however, it has five laser beams and five receiver channels.”