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NASA spacecraft rushes down to Mercury's surface
The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said the Messenger probe crashed into Mercury's surface because it ran out of fuel after 11 years of operation.
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NASA probe ship crashed into Mercury
The exploration ship Messenger of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) ends its mission by crashing into Mercury, after more than four years of spinning around the planet.
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Interesting things about the solar system
In the solar system, the hottest planet is not the closest to the Sun, Pluto is only half the size of America.
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The surface of Mercury is revealed by the image of the spacecraft
The Messenger spacecraft recently provided a chemical map of Mercury's surface, revealing important information about the planet's development history.
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Things you may not know about Mercury
Mercury is the sun closest to the sun in the solar system, it has been studied quite well by scientists over time.
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Strange phenomena can only be seen in the universe
On Earth there are many extremely strange natural phenomena that you may never have seen: the phenomenon of fire rain, red tide or the phenomenon of lightning hitting th…
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Mercury is no different from a raisin fruit turning around the Sun.
Mercury is gradually shrinking and
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Discovering an alien city on Mercury?
A UFO expert believes that NASA's strange photos taken from Mercury show traces of a city on this 400-degree C planet.
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Mercury shrinks faster than expected
The smallest planet and the closest to the sun are shrinking in size faster than previously calculated by experts.
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The unexpected similarity between the moon and Mercury
Mercury can unravel the long-standing mysteries of the moon's formation, after scientists found unexpected similarities between these two bodies.
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Kepler's fireball
With the newly discovered planet, its year is just one day of working on Earth, about 8:30.
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Tripartite meeting on the sky
Astronomers will have the opportunity to admire the moon, Venus and Mercury in the night sky on June 10.
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Triangle heavenly planets
Tonight Jupiter, Venus and Mercury will form a triangle in the night sky, a scene that people must wait until 2026 to see again.
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Stone from Mercury has fallen to Earth
Many people saw a meteorite on fire in the sky in North Africa in July last year, but it was not until late December that scientists discovered its fragments at a place…
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Ghost ocean on Mercury
Mercury, the planet that is closest to the sun, may have owned a large ma-ocean ocean and curled up early in its 4.5-billion-year history.