NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has finally started sending back the first images of the solar systems inner most planet ever taken by a human made invention on March 29. The first views are of the south and north polar regions of Mercury were released by NASA on March 29 and March 30, and they paint a new portrait of the surface of Mercury than the one astronomers had previously painted. The first images of the surface of Mercury show a crater strewn surface use to continual bombardment over mil...


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