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MESSENGER Probes Venus' Atmosphere
June 6, 2007 / Posted by: Shige Abe
On route to Mercury, the MESSENGER spacecraft is doing a flyby of Venus where, on June 5th, it sent out a laser beam to measure the location of Venus’ cloud decks. “We are treating the Venus flyby as a full dress rehearsal for the first flyby of Mercury in January 2008,” says Sean Solomon, PI of both the MESSENGER mission and NAI’s Carnegie Institution of Washington Team.
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