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05.16.08

The Incredible Shrinking Planet

The Messenger probe continues to reveal new information about that first rock from the sun
By Gregory Mone Posted 01.31.2008 at 4:41 pm 0 Comments

The 1,213 photos of Mercury taken by NASA's Messenger probe, and released yesterday, back up some previously held ideas about the planet, while also raising new questions.

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Touch Down on Titan

Descent Through Clouds to Surface
By Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Posted 05.24.2005 at 4:00 pm 0 Comments

This short animation is made up from a sequence of images taken by the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) instrument on board ESA's Huygens probe, during its successful descent to Titan on Jan. 14, 2005.

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