Succeeded and the U.S. space agency "NASA" in the development of the first complete map of the planet Mercury, the closest the planets of the solar system to the sun, according to the site "Space" on the latest news concerning the world of outer space.
The space scientists have long suffered from the lack of information available about the smallest planet in the solar system, it is not only explore its satellites in the past.
But spacecraft "Messenger" of the agency, "NASA" managed to fill this information gap relatively, after settled in orbit around Mercury since March 2011, before the announcement on 28 February announced the completion of image capture required for the demarcation of the first map of the planet Mercury.
And merely "NASA" in the past, specifically before the launch of "Messenger" filmed an area less than half the surface of the planet Mercury, through images that the vehicle "Mariner 10" captured in flights carried out between 1974 and 1975.
And managed the last images of detection qualities of the land did not see by space scientists on the surface of Mercury.
It is noteworthy that vehicle "Messenger" which cost $ 446 million U.S., was launched into space in 2004, and flew around the earth once and around Venus twice and Mercury three times before settling into orbit around 2011, and was supposed to end its mission in space in March of the year the past, but has been extended for an additional year to be able to finish the job.
