NASA's Messenger
NASA's Messenger Mercury probe completed the first of six planned planetary gravity assists 1,458 mi. over central Mongolia early on Aug. 2, almost exactly a year after it was launched, swinging that close to Earth for a slingshot pull from Earth's gravity that will take it 18 million mi. closer to...
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