NASA’s Mariner 10 and Messenger spacecraft both checked out Mercury. Mariner 10 flew by Mercury in the 1970s while Messenger reached Mercury in 2011 and crashed into the planet at the end of its ...

Nasa Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft which has orbited Mercury since 2011 will crash into the planet on Thursday bringing the mission to a dramatic close. The US space agency will broadcast the ...

solid inner core MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, Geochemistry and Ranging) was a robotic spacecraft, which was launched in August 2004 with an aim to study the chemical composition ...