I spent Monday helping film the next Sky at Night, which is all about the MESSENGER mission to the planet Mercury. How could it not be? It’s shown us part of a planet (a real planet, not this Pluto nonsense) that we have never seen before. The first results have been stunning; at first glance [...]
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I’m very excited by the flyby of NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft past Mercury which happened a couple of days ago. The first of three flybys by this, the first spacecraft to visit the innermost planet for more than thirty years, should have included our first look at one of the few major parts of the solar [...]
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