[Monday, December 4, 2006] MESSENGER's Trajectory Correction Maneuver 13 (TCM-13), its first since its maiden pass at Venus in October, was successfully executed last Saturday and will help keep the spacecraft on track for its second flyby of Venus on June 5, 2007.

[Thursday, December 14, 2006] Thanks to ESA's Venus Express data, scientists obtained the first large-area temperature maps of the southern hemisphere of the inhospitable, lead-melting surface of Venus.