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NASA’s Messenger spacecraft is the first probe ever to orbit the planet Mercury. It began orbiting the innermost planet in the solar system in 2011 and has recorded more than 200,000 photos of Mercury.
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Wilkinson, J. (2016). Mercury: The Iron Planet. In: The Solar System in Close-Up. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27629-8_4
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