NASA's Messenger Probe Shows Hundred-Mile Cliffs on Mercury
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NASA's Messenger probe sends scientists a treasure-trove of data, and with two more flybys and an orbital mission to follow, these images are just the beginning.
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NASA&#39;S Cassini space-probe has sent back some stunning images from its close encounter with Titan, one of the moon&#39;s of the giant ringed planet Saturn.
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A space probe landed successfully on Saturn's giant moon Titan yesterday after a seven-year journey, and immediately began transmitting images of its mysterious surface. A landscape emerged of canyons carved by liquid, a possible shoreline, and ice blocks, parts of a world that scientists believe resembles the early Earth.
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NASA's Messenger spacecraft has beamed back some surprising new data from the planet Mercury. Highlights include a weird crater nicknamed &quot;the Spider,&quot; a planetary tail of hydrogen atoms, and measurements that show giant Caloris basin is even bigger than researchers thought.
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By JEFFREY GOLD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW BRUNSWICK  Although just 100 miles off the New Jersey-New York coast, the features of the Hudson Canyon have been largely hidden beneath hundreds of feet of water.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - The European-built space probe  Huygens entered the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan,  on Friday in the last lap of a historic voyage to unveil the  secrets of the moon's fog-shrouded surface.
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NASA's Messenger probe will make its second pass by Venus on Tuesday, which will help guide the spacecraft on its circuitous journey to Mercury and give scientists a close-up look at Earth's cloud-shrouded neighbor.
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A closer view of the Cassini image of the Huygens Probe after its successful release. The image was taken about 12 hours after the probe&#39;s release from the orbiter.
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A European space probe Friday sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon Titan, showing stunning black and white images of what appeared to be hilly terrain riddled with channels or riverbeds carved by a liquid.
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NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter.
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NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft streaked by Saturn&#39;s smoggy moon Titan today, targeted to pass within just 750 miles of the planet-sized satellite to give scientists their first
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This radar image of the surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan was acquired on October 26, 2004, when the Cassini spacecraft flew approximately 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) above the surface and acquired radar data for the first time.
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The Cassini spacecraft has returned the best-ever view of the icy Tethys, one of the moons of Saturn, depicting its battered 1060km-diameter surface in this photograph released by Nasa.
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The first pictures taken by the Messenger probe as it passed Mercury on Monday start to arrive at Earth.
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Scientists are eagerly awaiting new images and observations Monday when a NASA spacecraft flies over Mercury in the first visit in almost 33 years to the mysterious small planet.
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The international Cassini spacecraft spotted a nearly mile-high mountain range shrouded in hazy clouds on Saturn's giant moon Titan, scientists reported Tuesday.
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Beams back images of first approach NASA's Messenger yesterday successfully completed its first fly-by of Mercury, passing roughly 124 miles (200km) above the surface of the planet.â¦