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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:Correction by the_other_chewey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first images from the close approach will not be available until 01/05/08

    Could we please use unambiguous date formatting?
    Something like YYYY-MM-DD?
    I guess you actually meant 2008-01-15 with a typo.

  2. Re:Correction by the_other_chewey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is 2008-01-05 unambiguous?

    ISO 8601.
    Additionally, I'm completely unaware of anyone or anyplace using
    YYYY-DD-MM as a date format, and my googleing seems to confirm that.