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MESSENGER Team Begins Planning for Second Mercury Encounter »» MESSENGER Team Begins Planning for Second Mercury Encounter

[Thursday, February 7, 2008] Little more than three weeks after MESSENGER's first historic flyby of Mercury, the team this week began mapping out its trajectory and observation plans for the probe's second pass of the planet this fall.

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NASA MESSENGER News- One Month Ago ... »» NASA MESSENGER News- One Month Ago ...

[Friday, February 15, 2008] One month ago, on January 14, 2008, MESSENGER became the first spacecraft in over three decades to visit Mercury, snapping images of a large portion of the planet's surface previously unseen by spacecraft.

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Craters in Caloris »» Craters in Caloris

[Wednesday, February 27, 2008] As MESSENGER sped by Mercury on January 14, 2008, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) captured this image, which includes the edge of the planet against the blackness of space.

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