All Data from First Messenger Mercury Flyby Safely Retrieved
Credit: NASA/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY/CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON
Scientists on NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (Messenger) project have started poring through some 500 MB. of data recovered from the spacecraft recorder after its first flyby, including this previously unseen view of the planet’s south pole. The low Sun angle at...
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