Messenger is alive and shooting (check the best photos!)

March 31, 2008

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The spacecraft sent to space by NASA is doing the job quite well scientist say.

Nasa sent Messenger to investigate mercury which is the smallest and densest planet in our solar system. Beside having the oldest surface and being the closest to the sun, Mercury also has the largest daily temperature variations in his surface.

This spacecraft took almost two decades to be developed and was designed with the ability to go under extreme heat conditions which are the ones encountered in Mercury’s orbit.

Take a look at the new findings of Mercury, they are amazing!

The findings I’m posting are a compilation of the best images taken by NASA’s spacecraft Mercury until today. Hope you enjoy!

Amazing photo of Mercury in color:

Photo of Mercury horizon taken by Messenger on the first flyby:

Messenger first image after the closest flyby:

Photo of ridges and cliffs on Mercury surface:

Photo of the 130 miles in diameter crater called Matisse:

Photo of Mercury North Pole:

Photo of the previously unseen side:

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