Messenger at Mercury
On March 17tth, the Messenger Spacecraft started orbiting our inner most planet, Mercury. This is the first time that any ship has been in orbit around this planet, which means many pictures will be taken. This project has been very exciting for me because I've been following it on Nasa.gov and to see these kinds of pictures are great. Mercury almost looks like our Moon, but there are some other colors near the craters like red and blue if closely observed. Overall, viewing pictures of the planets in our solar system is one of my favorite things to do in Astronomy because I can feel even our solar system becoming "smaller" if you will as we have spacecrafts travel to each planet. Soon we will be saying "Its a small solar system" instead of "Its a small world".
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