Spacecraft Messenger completed its mission early Tuesday and sent stunning images of planet Mercury back to Earth. CNET's Kara Tsuboi interviews a NASA planetary scientist about why there's been so little exploration of the solar system's smallest planet and what researchers hope to glean from this mission and a planned orbit in 2011.
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October 7, 2008 1:19 PM PDT
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