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The MESSENGER spacecraft reaches Mercury
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The MESSENGER spacecraft reaches Mercury
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Early on 18 March 2011, a spacecraft swung into orbit around Mercury for the first time: NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft began orbiting the planet at 01:45 CET. The mission carries scientific instruments designed to map Mercury and analyse its structure and the composition of its surface.
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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