State of the Planet

News from the Columbia Climate School

MESSENGER

 

MESSENGER's last image of Mercury. (NASA)
MESSENGER’s last image of Mercury. (NASA)

 

Alien orbits you plied,

While we vicariously spied

A distant globe …

Oh, tough little probe!

It’s been a wonderful ride.

 

 

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Further reading:

MESSENGER’s last image

This is one in a series of posts by Katherine Allen, a researcher in geochemistry and paleoclimate at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University.

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