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First Probe To Orbit Mercury May Help Us Learn How Planets Form

Posted by Roblimo on from the you-mean-they're-not-made-of-Legos? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Next month, the first space probe in nearly 40 years will approach the planet Mercury, with an array of instruments that could help answer fundamental questions about how planets form. The mission is called MESSENGER, for Mercury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging. On March 17 it will pull into orbit around mercury, after more than six years of maneuvering between the Earth, Venus and Mercury itself."

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  1. recent 'history' has been farcically mis-presented by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    so it's no wonder we strive to continually discover the origin of all that hot air (our media). once it's (history) FUDged though, it keeps getting MORE 'incorrect', the further back you go? do the math. check your dna. see you (soon?) on the other side of it? maybe at one of the scheduled million baby 'play-dates'?