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MESSENGER enters orbit around Mercury — the first craft to do so

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Orbited for four years, mapping the whole planet and finding water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters. Encounter class: orbit insertion.

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  1. Story
  2. Orbited for four years, mapping the whole planet and finding water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters. Encounter class: orbit insertion.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Mercury
  5. MESSENGER
  6. MESSENGER enters orbit around Mercury — the first craft to do so
  7. Connections
  8. MESSENGER
  9. Mercury
  10. Mercury
  11. MESSENGER’s first Mercury pass — the first visit since 1975
  12. MESSENGER enters orbit around Mercury — the first craft to do so
  13. MESSENGER strikes Mercury at the end of its mission
  14. Mariner 10
  15. MESSENGER
  16. BepiColombo
  17. Mariner 10 passes Mercury — the first spacecraft to reach it
  18. Mariner 10’s third and final Mercury pass
  19. MESSENGER’s first Mercury pass — the first visit since 1975
  20. MESSENGER enters orbit around Mercury — the first craft to do so
  21. MESSENGER strikes Mercury at the end of its mission
  22. BepiColombo’s first Mercury flyby
  23. BepiColombo’s sixth and final Mercury flyby
  24. BepiColombo Mercury orbit insertion — declared target
  25. Evidence
  26. Launch, Mercury flybys, orbit insertion and the 2015 surface impact.
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