Messenger Loses Data On Mercury Flyby

Scientists will have to wait until 2011 to know more about some features spotted in the first two Mercury flybys by NASA’s Messenger probe, after the spacecraft went into a safe mode just before closest approach on the third and final flyby of the mission on Sept. 29. Controllers at the Johns...

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