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NASAs Mercury mission given last lease of life
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NASA engineers have lifted the orbit of the Mercury probe - currently operating on an extended mission and almost out of fuel - and delayed its inevitable impact into Mercury\'s surface by up to a month. The probe will succumb to the force of the Sun\'s gravity and spiral down to its doom on Mercury, Space.com reported. So far, the probe has yielded the best-ever maps of Mercury.
Washington: NASA engineers have lifted the orbit of the Mercury probe - currently operating on an extended mission and almost out of fuel - and delayed its inevitable impact into Mercury's surface by up to a month. The probe will succumb to the force of the Sun's gravity and spiral down to its doom on Mercury, Space.com reported. So far, the probe has yielded the best-ever maps of Mercury.
It also discovered carbon-containing organic compounds and water ice inside permanently shadowed craters near the rocky world's north pole. Messenger's final days of operation will prioritise observations made by the spacecraft's magnetometer (MAG) and neutron spectrometer (NS), mission team members informed.
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