NASA's MESSENGER probe begins the first of three flybys of Merciry next week. If all goes well, it will get the first images ever of a side of the planet missed by Mariner in 1974 and 1975.
MESSENGER is scheduled to make three flybys of Mercury before settling into orbit around the planet in 2011 for a full (Earth)year of collecting data. The MESSENGER mission, as has every first mission to a planet, promises to revolutionize our understanding of the planet closest to the Sun.
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