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MESSENGER Spacecraft Skims Just 125 Miles Over Mercury

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Monday, October 27th, 2008

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A U.S. spaceship early this month raced just 125 miles above the planet closest to the sun, Mercury, and came away with a treasure trove of 1,200 pictures. The fleet-footed photographer is the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft, or MESSENGER, spacecraft. It snapped closeup pictures of most of the remaining unseen side of Mercury, a blistering hot planet, and gathered other data as well. This was the second of three flybys that MESSENGER will make, skimming near…

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