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New pictures of Mercury


Jangler

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These images are really awesome.

There was actually a large region of Mercury that had never been photographed before because the Mariner 10 satellite couldn't manuver completely around the planet due to it's orbit around the sun and not the planet itself.

MESSENGER, the probe taking the pictures, is the first probe to orbit the planet itself, and one of the first things they did was to start getting pictures of the missing areas.

In related news, on July14, 2015, we'll see for the first time what Pluto looks like.

New Horizons probe

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