Mercury's Gravity Field from MESSENGER after Six Months in Orbit

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..139l&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.139

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After an interplanetary cruise phase of nearly 7 years, including three flybys of the innermost planet, the MESSENGER spacecraft entered into orbit about Mercury on 18 March 2011. One of the major science measurement objectives of the orbital mission phase is the determination of Mercury's gravity field for improving our understanding of the planet's internal structure, the state of the core, the thickness of the crust, and the tectonic and thermal history of the planet.

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