Why Did NASA Crash A Satellite Into Mercury?
NASA sends spacecrafts to planets all the time. Why do they spend the money to do so if they're just going to crash them into the planet? Read More: Spacecraft ...
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Occasionally, NASA makes the news not because they did something super inspirational or fantastic or crazy cool amazing, but because people just don't get it. This is one of those times. Howdy partners, this is DNews, thanks for coming by! I'm Trace Dominguez. Mercury is the innermost planet in our solar system, it's both hot and cold, and it's zipping around the sun every 88 days -- but to be honest, we don't know as much about it as we'd like. So NASA launched Messenger in 2004 to explore it -- it arrived in 2011, and has been orbiting ever since. It's learned about volatile compounds on the planet, its magnetic field, that there is ice in the shadowed craters, and about the ancient tectonic and volcanic systems that shaped the planet; among other things. B...
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Occasionally, NASA makes the news not because they did something super inspirational or fantastic or crazy cool amazing, but because people just don't get it. This is one of those times. Howdy partners, this is DNews, thanks for coming by! I'm Trace Dominguez. Mercury is the innermost planet in our solar system, it's both hot and cold, and it's zipping around the sun every 88 days -- but to be honest, we don't know as much about it as we'd like. So NASA launched Messenger in 2004 to explore it -- it arrived in 2011, and has been orbiting ever since. It's learned about volatile compounds on the planet, its magnetic field, that there is ice in the shadowed craters, and about the ancient tectonic and volcanic systems that shaped the planet; among other things. B...
