NASA probe made a last photo of Mercury before the collision with the planet – Charter’97

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The collapse of the “Messenger” has been scheduled.

The mission of NASA probe completed photographing the 93-km in diameter crater Mercury Jókai before how spacecraft crashed on the planet’s surface, writes ZN.ua.

The US probe (collided with the surface of Mercury http://charter97.org/ru/news/2015/4/30/149728/) at a speed of 3.9 km / sec. The blow had such power that the world has a new crater more than 15 meters. «Mission” Messenger “has given scientists a lot of new information about Mercury, and now we break to the next phase of the mission – deciphering the existing data» , – said the employee of NASA John Gransfild .

Starting the “Messenger” took place in 2004, but the spacecraft took more than six years on the way to the orbit of Mercury. NASA had planned that the mission of “Messenger” will last about a year, but thanks to the successful performance of the mission exceeded the time limit of four years.