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Shortly following MESSENGER’s closest approach to Mercury on January 14, 2008, the spacecraft’s Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument acquired this image as ...

A high-resolution morphometric analysis of the southeastern region of Coprates Chasma, part of the extensive canyon system of Valles Marineris on planet Mars, has made it possible to identify ...

David Rothery is Professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University. He is co-leader of the European Space Agency's Mercury Surface and Composition Working Group, and a Co-Investigator on MIXS ...