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NASA Shot The MESSENGER — Into Orbit, Around The Iron Planet

And you thought hitting a thermal exhaust port was tough? Try shooting a 450kg satellite 7.8 billion kilometres across the solar system into orbit around a planet less than half the size of Earth, and just 45.8 million kilometres from the sun.

May 15, 2012
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Man Killed With Poisonous Umbrella

This is really bad: a man hit with a poisonous umbrella in a street of Hannover, Germany, has died after a long struggle in the hospital. It sounds like a James Bond movie, except that it’s real and it sucks. This is what happened:

March 23, 2012
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Frozen Water Found In Scorching Hot 400C Mercury Hell

NASA’s Messenger has found very strong indications of frozen water in Mercury. But how can there be frozen water in a hell like Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, boiling at 400C?

February 17, 2012
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Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism, Please Vaccinate Your Children

Yet another study has found no association between vaccines and autism. Mercury, the main ingredient in vaccines suspected of causing learning disabilities, hasn’t been used to preserve the medicines since 2001. And since then, the incidence of autism has still increased.

December 8, 2011
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Awesome NASA Video Captures What Looks Like An Alien Spaceship [Update]

A camera on board NASA’s STEREO A satellite seems to have captured video of an unknown object that looks like an actual spaceship. The unknown object appeared when a Sun’s coronal mass ejection (CME) reached planet Mercury. Watch the video and judge by yourself.

March 30, 2011
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This Is The First Image Ever Obtained From Mercury Orbit

You are witnessing a historical moment: This is the first image ever obtained from Mercury’s orbit. It was taken by NASA’s Messenger, the first human-made spaceship to orbit this battered scorching hell.

November 17, 2010

Casio’s Mercury-Free Projector Uses Laser-LED Hybrid Light

Lasers can be a nasty chemical affair, which makes tossing them out ecologically dubious. But Casio’s now available GREEN SLIM line of 3000 lumen projectors uses the first ever mercury-free laser and LED hybrid light to beam your stuff.

July 21, 2010
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Japan Sending Mirrorball To Mercury

Fresh from the (possible) success of its Hayabusa comet dust hoover, Japan is planning a new space mission – sending a rotating mirrored probe to the currently fashionable planet Mercury.

July 17, 2010
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Mercury Flyby Maps New Territory

The results from the Messenger spacecraft’s third and final flyby of Mercury are finally in and cover ground never before mapped. But they leave scientists wanting more.

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Smithsonian’s Spacesuits: Number One On The Runway

The iconic NASA spacesuit didn’t show up in astronauts’ closets fully formed. Here, a small sampling of the many precursors held with reverence at the Smithsonian Museum.

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