Messenger Returns First Image From Mercury Orbit
CAPTURING MERCURY: NASA’s Messenger probe has completed its first orbital imaging pass at the planet Mercury, sending back a look at a portion of the south polar region never before imaged from a spacecraft. The image was the first of a series collected over a six-hr. period as controllers at the...
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