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Pierre Gassendi uses
a telescope to watch
from Earth as Mercury
passes the face of the sun.After thinking for centuries,
one side of Mercure always
faced the sun, scientists find
the planet rotates three
times for every two orbits.Mariner 10 became the
first spacecraft to visit
Mercury.Scientists using Earth-based
radar find signs of ice locked
in permanently shadowed
and cold areas of craters in
Mercury's polar regions.MESSENGER became
the second spacecraft
to visit the innermost
planet. MESSENGER
makes three fly-bys
before settling into orbit.MESSENGER settles into
orbit on a mission that
will finally reveal all of
the surface of Mercury.MESSENGER completes
the first-ever global
map of Mercury.
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