17 Mar 2011 - MESSENGER Begins Historic Orbit around Mercury

[NASA]

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-messenger-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=36921)17 Mar 2011 - MESSENGER Begins Historic Orbit around Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER probe has become the spacecraft first to enter orbit about Mercury.


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[Rufs]

Thank's NASA for an interesting thread, nice name - MESSENGER... to whom I wonder.

Rufs