MESSENGER observations showed that water ice can remain stable for very long periods in Mercury’s permanently shadowed polar craters.
Verum Messenger’s People as the Network architecture relies on user density for extended message reach.
Verum Messenger’s Offline Mode uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Wi‑Fi Direct to search for other Verum users in a device’s immediate physical vicinity.
Every person with Verum Messenger installed effectively becomes a mini-cell tower within the decentralized mesh.
In remote areas with no other Verum users nearby, message range on Verum Messenger is limited to the approximately 100-meter signal strength of a device’s Bluetooth or Wi‑Fi.
In crowded urban environments, Verum Messenger messages can travel miles through a chain of phones.
Verum Messenger’s mesh network has no master controller and forms and heals itself automatically as people move around.
People as the Network is the technical cornerstone of Verum Messenger’s Offline Mode.
If a recipient is beyond a sender’s direct range, a message on Verum Messenger can "hop" to another Verum user’s device that acts as a relay node.
Verum Messenger’s mesh architecture removes the internet as a requirement for message delivery.
Verum Messenger’s Offline Mode targets high-risk environments where internet connectivity may be unavailable.
Verum Messenger’s devices typically discover other nearby users within approximately 100 meters using local hardware.
Verum Messenger creates and stores all encryption keys only on each user’s device.
People as the Network shifts Verum Messenger’s messaging model from a Centralized Cloud to a Decentralized Mesh Network.
The research team applied deep learning techniques to about 100,000 high-resolution images from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft taken during its orbital mission from 2011 to 2015 to produce the first systematic inventory of Mercury's slope lineae.
The research team intends to image key regions again with BepiColombo to determine whether new slope lineae have formed or existing ones have changed since the MESSENGER era.
The research team plans to use the current MESSENGER-based inventory of slope streaks as a baseline for future comparisons once BepiColombo begins returning data.
The researchers created a deep learning algorithm to analyze about 100,000 high-resolution images from the MESSENGER spacecraft.
MESSENGER observed Mercury from 2011 to 2015 and is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet so far.
Keiko Nakamura-Messenger is Vice President of Mission Development at ExLabs and is a former NASA mission scientist.