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On March 25, the MESSENGER spacecraft completed its 4,000th orbit of Mercury, and the lowest point in its orbit continues to move closer to the planet than ever before. The orbital phase of the ...
The Mercury orbiter went crunch shortly after this. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Orbiters tend go to out with more of a bang than ...
After 4,104 orbits of Mercury and billions of miles of space travel, NASA's Messenger orbiter ended its mission with a quiet bang on Thursday. Messenger crashed into the planet it has been orbiting ...