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NASA Science News for Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:12:02 -0600
from: Surprises from Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has beamed back some surprising new data from the planet Mercury. Highlights include a weird crater nicknamed "the Spider," a planetary tail of hydrogen atoms, and measurements that show giant Caloris basin is even bigger than researchers imagined.
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