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Mission to Mercury (plus funny typo!)

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  • 27-07-2004 9:48am
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    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭


    I love the "blasted by temperatures up to 37 celsius"

    From de D-Dindo.




    NASA is about to embark on its hottest mission ever - to Mercury.

    The Messenger spacecraft, to be launched next week, will be blasted by temperatures up to 37 celsius as it orbits the tiny planet closest to the sun - so close that it would be as though 11 suns were beating down on Earth.

    Messenger will be the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury and the first in 30 years to come close.

    Even though Mercury is 50m miles from Earth at closest approach, Messenger will travel 5bn miles to get there. It will swing once past Earth, twice past Venus, and three times past Mercury before slowing down enough to slip into orbit. Estimated arrival time: is March 2011.


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    #2
    Bill Higgins
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    Well, it could be worse-- it could say "blasted by temperatures up to 37 Kelvin..."


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    Flukey
    Registered Users Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    Or it could be Yahoo Messenger. Of course if it was an instant Messenger, it would get there immediately! :)


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