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Messenger Flies by Mercury

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fun-in-the-sun dept.

Riding with Robots writes "Today, more than three decades after the last spacecraft visited Mercury, Messenger buzzed just 200 kilometers above the planet's surface. During the encounter, the robotic spacecraft conducted a range of scientific observations, including imaging swaths of Mercury's surface that have never been seen up close before. A few of the first pictures are now available, with many more to come in the next few days."

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  1. Re:great flyby animation by snowraver1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I downloaded the 84Mb version and it seems to me that they could of accomplished the exact same thing using a 1 MB flash video. Tax dollars at work!

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