MESSENGER Mission (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

MESSENGER Mission

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Launched in 2004, an $8.7 million CU-Boulder instrument riding on NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury will begin orbiting the hot, rocky planet on March 17.

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Image courtesy NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

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