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NASA's MESSENGER Ready to Crash into Mercury

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Revealed by NASA's Messenger, Mercury said to Possess oldest Magnetic Field in Solar System

NASA's infamous spacecraft, Messenger which crash landed onto Mercury's surface on April 30 has sent reports which indicate that the planet possesses the oldest magnetic field in the history of the Solar System. The spacecraft which orbited Mercury right from 2011 to 2015 but it wasn't until the final months of the mission in which it became dangerously close to the Mercury's surface at 60 miles, that this report was sent.

Goodbye, MESSENGER

NASA's MESSENGER to Crash into Mercury on April 16

The spacecraft's cameras and other sophisticated, high-technology instruments have collected unprecedented images and made other observations

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