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Mercury’s first photo from orbit has been snapped by NASA‘s Messenger spacecraft on March 29, 2011, Space.com reported.
“This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the solar system’s innermost planet,” Messenger mission scientists...
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This is the extraordinary place where we all live - the Universe.
The picture is the first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the "oldest light" in the cosmos.
It took the 600m-euro observatory just over six months to assemble the map...
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