Scientists were astonished when the Mariner 10 spacecraft sent evidence of a global magnetic field enveloping Mercury. Space missions to the outer planets have revealed global magnetism on Jupiter ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington A NASA spacecraft is stripping ... to Mercury—three passes by Mariner 10 in 1974 and 1975—was ...

The list of accomplishments of the Mariner program is long indeed, and the number of firsts achieved by its ten spacecraft is impressive. But it is Mariner 4, the first flyby mission of Mars ...

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) captured a stunning view of Earth’s western hemisphere, with white clouds and snow, deep blue oceans, and green and brown continents. NASA ...