NASA’s Messenger Crashes Into Planet

Posted by | April 30, 2015 21:00 | Filed under: Planet Pot Luck

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An 11-year mission ended as Messenger crashed into Mercury.

The crash ended a successful mission for Messenger, which was launched in August 2004. The spacecraft has undertaken extensive mapping of Mercury during its journey, and has sent a slew of data on the planet back to earth. Messenger, for example, found vast troves of sulfur on the planet’s surface.

Messenger’s original goal was to take 2,500 images of the planet, but it has returned more than 270,000 to earth.

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4 responses to NASA’s Messenger Crashes Into Planet

  1. Obewon April 30th, 2015 at 23:18

    OMG! Crashed and burned. Oh but that was the planned science. Zombies won’t figure it out.

    • fahvel May 1st, 2015 at 03:39

      it was a mercurian ray gun Obe.

  2. fahvel May 1st, 2015 at 03:39

    well, that stinks!

  3. bpollen May 1st, 2015 at 15:39

    Can I say that Messenger had a bit of a Mercurial career?

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