CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The only spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury ended its four-year tour with a crash landing Thursday
NASA’s Messenger plunged from orbit as planned and slammed into the sun’s closest planet at about 8,750 mph (14,081 kph), creating a crater an estimated 52 feet (16 meters) across.
Messenger became the first spacecraft to orbit hot, little Mercury, in 2011. It circled the solar system’s innermost planet 4,105 times and collected more than 277,000 images. MORE
That is great stuff. I wish I was smart enough to be a rocket surgeon.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/593889942176141312
and that my friends is why we should NEVER send a space probe to Uranus!! bada bing
Geemaneeze, I hope no Mercurians got hurt.
Of course the leftist turd who wrote the article had to take a regressive dig at mankind in the article.
“Mercury is the last of the rocky inner planets in our solar system — also counting Mars and Venus — to be littered by mankind.”
Even in a moment of great scientific work, leftists find a way to turn it into some event that he thinks we should be ashamed of.
Sure hope they got some good info on global warming.
Pretty sure it has nothing to do with proximity to sun.