Messenger Set To Return First Images

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory are ready to receive the first images ever taken from orbit around the planet Mercury this week, starting with a shot of this region around the South Pole outlined in yellow. NASA’s Messenger probe became the first manmade object...

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