NASA's Messenger on target in first Mercury flyby since '75
COLUMBIA, Md. - Planetary scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory cheered Jan. 14 as the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (Messenger) orbiter flew within about 125 miles of the surface of Mercury, the first spacecraft to fly by the innermost...
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