Thread: Progress of Messenger in the Solar system
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Old 30-January-2007, 11:24 PM
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I was looking at the Messenger website today when I noticed that this orbit will be the final time the probe will travel outside of Venus. When this orbit is finished (sometime late this year), Messenger will be just outside of Mercury orbit and a little behind the planet. It will catch up with Mercury about a year from now.
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