NASA picks Mercury, comet probes as next Discovery missions

NASA's Office of Space Science has picked two ambitious space probes as the newest missions in its Discovery program - a Mercury orbiter and an attempt to blast a huge chunk out of a comet so astronomers can analyze the resulting debris. Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory will...

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