MESSENGER Spacecraft (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

MESSENGER Spacecraft

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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft carrying an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument will make its second flyby of Mercury Oct. 6. The desk-sized spacecraft will settle into Mercury orbit in 2011 after having made 15 loops around the sun since its 2004 launch.

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