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MESSENGER Flyby
New Discoveries on Planet Mercury
November 4, 2009 | NASA

The MESSENGER spacecraft has completed its last flyby of Mercury, giving astronomers fresh data and a 98% complete map of the planet’s surface. This article has photos, graphs, and illustrations to accompany the findings.


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