Science news articles about 'spacecraft flyby'

... much of the surface never before seen by spacecraft. As MESSENGER pulls away from the planet it will view ... before -- when NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft made three flybys in 1974 and 1975, said Senior ...

Recent Cassini spacecraft flybys of Titan have revealed new information about possible ice volcanoes on the small moon.

... , or MASCS. Despite the spacecraft's eye-popping speed, rapid rotation maneuvers during the flyby will allow the MASCS instrument to "stare" at a handful of selected targets ...