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Mar. 31st, 2011 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollFrom the Planetary Science Blog:
The bit that caught my eye was:
Today the MESSENGER mission held a press briefing to show off some of the first images and other data that are streaming in from the spacecraft, now that it has entered Mercury orbit.
The bit that caught my eye was:
It's just the barest beginning of what MESSENGER will get in a mission lasting four Mercury years. But that five days' worth of data has already tripled the number of measurements that we've made of the planet's magnetic field, and it has also reached to the full span of latitudes never before sampled by a spacecraft.
