MESSENGER
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title:
MESSENGER
text:
MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. The name is a backronym for "Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging", and a reference to the messenger god Mercury from Roman mythology. MESSENGER was launched aboard a Delta II rocket in August 2004. Its path involved a complex series of flybys – the spacecraft flew by Earth once, Venus twice, and Mercury its
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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NASA mission to Mercury
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESSENGER
date created:
2004-02-02T08:12:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T16:06:44Z
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