MESSENGER Set for Final Flyby of Mercury
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 15:14
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is set to make its third and final flyby of the planet Mercury on Sept. 29th. The encounter is expected to produce hundreds of images of previously unseen terrain and confirm the strange elliptical shape of Mercury's equator.
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