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On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER spacecraft on a historic first mission to orbit the planet Mercury. Discover space history 👉 https://trib.al/rzA2RUz The spacecraft's name stands for the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging mission. It blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:15 a.m. Eastern Time and spent the next six and a half years making its way to Mercury's orbit. Because Mercury is so close to the Sun, a spacecraft travelling t

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1.6K views · 31 reactions | Discover the key facts about Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. | National Space Centre | Facebook

Say hi to “Mercury”! I’m a photographer. All my models are rescues from sanctuaries in Georgia. And I use landscapes as a metaphor for freedom and base the type of landscape on what they’ve gone through, then I put the 2 together by hand #photography #horsephotography #horsephotographer #horseart | Ashley Lynn Fotos

BepiColombo spacecraft performing a close Mercury flyby! | Space Xplore

80K views · 1.6K reactions | Planet Mercury - our closest-ever flyby, done this month by ESA/JAXA spacecraft BepiColombo. Just 100 mi/165 km above the scarred surface, so close to the Sun. info: https://tinyurl.com/j7ezsevy | Col. Chris Hadfield | Facebook