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The Magnetometer Instrument on MESSENGER
The Magnetometer (MAG) on the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission is a low-noise, tri-axial, fluxgate...
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The X-ray Spectrometer on the MESSENGER Spacecraft
NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) mission will further the understanding of the formation of the...
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The Mercury Laser Altimeter Instrument for the MESSENGER Mission
The Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) is one of the payload science instruments on the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging...
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Chronology
This table covers all kinds of high-rate phenomena, such as percussion, blast, shock waves, explosions, implosions and impact as well as milestones...
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Updates to the MSFC Meteoroid Stream Model
The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Meteoroid Stream Model simulates particle ejection and subsequent evolution from comets in order to provide...
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The Mercury Dual Imaging System on the MESSENGER Spacecraft
The Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) on the MESSENGER spacecraft will provide critical measurements tracing Mercury’s origin and evolution. MDIS...
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MESSENGER Mission Design and Navigation
Nearly three decades after the Mariner 10 spacecraft’s third and final targeted Mercury flyby, the 3 August 2004 launch of the MESSENGER (MErcury...
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The MESSENGER Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer
A Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS) instrument has been developed as part of the science pay load for NASA’s Discovery Program mission to the...
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The Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer for the MESSENGER Mission
The Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) is one of seven science instruments onboard the MErcury Surface, Space...
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Enhanced End-Use Efficiency
This chapter is about energy success stories and potential success stories. Since the oil embargo, the United States has reduced its energy-use...
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X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
X-ray absorption spectroscopy has widespread applications to biology and chemistry. Here we review the principles of the technique and discuss some...
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Solar System Processes Underlying Planetary Formation, Geodynamics, and the Georeactor
Only three processes, operant during the formation of the Solar System, are responsible for the diversity of matter in the Solar System and are...
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Mercury
Mercury may provide answers to questions regarding the formation and evolution of our Solar System. This article reviews what is known about Mercury...
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Pulsars as Probes of Relativistic Gravity, Nuclear Matter, and Astrophysical Plasmas
Pulsars are rotating neutron stars (NSs) that provide unique information about their interiors, about the relativistic plasma physics of their...
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Pathways out of Classical Physics
The relativity revolution was far from complete when Einstein published his pathbreaking paper on the electrodynamics of moving bodies in 1905. It...
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The Third Way to General Relativity: Einstein and Mach in Context
The relationship between Einstein and Mach is often discussed as a prototypical case of the influence of philosophy on physics.1 It is, on the other...
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The Spin-Orbit Rotation of Mercury
One of the main characteristics of Mercury is its 3 : 2 spin-orbit resonance. The analytical 2-degrees of freedom model proposed here takes into...
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