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The MESSENGER spacecraft made its second Mercury flyby on Monday, 6 October at 08:40:22 UT (4:40 a.m. EDT), passing within 200 km (125 miles) of the surface. The first data will be transmitted to Earth on October 7.
Snow has been detected in the martian atmosphere by the Phoenix lander. As local winter approaches, output from the solar panels will soon drop to levels too low to power the lander, ending the mission in a few months. More....
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) Mission has been selected as the next NASA Mars Scout mission, planned for launch in late 2013. For more, see the NASA press release.
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October 07
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- Luna 3 takes and transmits first-ever images of the far side of the Moon.
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