1.0 link 132765 <![CDATA[NASA Mercury Photos: Never-Before-Seen Images From Spacecraft MESSENGER]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/nasa-mercury-photos-never_n_132765.html A U.S. spacecraft beamed hundreds of photos of Mercury back to Earth on Tuesday after a close encounter with the planet closest to the sun.

The images show scientists never-before-seen landscapes on the planet's surface.

Four of the high-resolution images were made public at 10 a.m. ET Tuesday, posted by NASA on its MESSENGER Web site. Taken during a three-hour span before and after the spacecraft's closest approach to Mercury, the photos offer detailed new glimpses of the barren planet.

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