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Applied Physics Laboratory: Messenger Home WebsiteApplied Physics Laboratory: Messenger Home Website
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Johns Hopkins University
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9th - 10th
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Applied Physics Laboratory: Messenger Home

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Home page for NASA's Discovery Program Messenger to the planet Mercury. Site provides details of the planned mission, its experiments and the science and management teams. Linked Quicktime animation files are very large and detailed. Linked outreach program to train teachers and provide student activities.

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Concepts

nasa, mercury, venus

Additional Tags

laser altimeter, gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, global mapping, interplanetary mission, messenger, multicolor imaging, space probe, space probes, terrestrial planet evolution, messenger spacecraft

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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