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28.03.10- Messenger Spies High-Energy Solar Neutrons.

March 28, 2010 by David Dickinson  
Filed under Astro News, Astro News & Commentary

 
   After a considerable hiatus, solar cycle 24 is now well under way. And this time, NASA has a key observing platform in the inner solar system; the Messenger spacecraft, bound for an insertion to orbit Mercury in March, 2011. In the intervening time, scientists at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona have been [...]