May 01

NASA Messenger mission comes to an end, crashes into Mercury

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2015-05-01 1 mercury probe 2After ten years in space, NASA’s Messenger probe purposefully crashed on Mercury. The probe spent four years in a strictly elliptical orbit, using boosts of power from its engine every couple of months, before it finally ran out of fuel. After orbiting Mercury 4,104 times, NASA decided to purposefully crash the probe into the planet’s surface using a string of … Continue reading

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