NASA's MESSENGER probe crashed at 3:26 p.m. EDT Thursday (April 30), gouging a new crater into Mercury's surface. This violent end was inevitable for MESSENGER, which had been orbiting Mercury since March 2011 and had run out of fuel.
NASA's MESSENGER probe crashed at 3:26 p.m. EDT Thursday (April 30), gouging a new crater into Mercury's surface. This violent end was inevitable for MESSENGER, which had been orbiting Mercury since March 2011 and had run out of fuel.
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