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EARTHDATE: January 27, 2008

Official News page 9


ON THE WEB: CLOSE-UPS OF MERCURY

by Hazed

The Mercury Messenger spacecraft has now done its first fly-by of the strange planet that is closest to our sun, and sent us some amazingly detailed photos. In all, it was able to take over 1,000 images which will be beamed back for planetary geologists to study. Pictures released so far show that the hot, barren planet is covered with craters.

The Mercury Messenger site has a lot more information about the mission, as well as loads of photos.

The probe is scheduled to fly past Mercury a couple more times before it finally enters orbit in 2011.


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