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Unprecedented Views of Mercury's Surface
For the first time since 1975, a NASA spacecraft has captured fresh images of Mercury, shedding new light on a planet that's mostly been in the dark because of its close proximity to the sun. (MORE: Go Inside the Space Shuttle Atlantis) (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) Thanks to the MESSENGER spacecraft, the first to orbit Mercury, , according to an io9.com report. The article also states the craft intends to take another 80,000 photos or...