August 3, 2004 was
launched interplanetary station "Messenger". Its aim was to study the
closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. The unit flew to the hot planet 7 years,
and only in 2011 it entered the orbit. For two years in orbit, he was able to
do a lot of images of Mercury's surface, collected and handed over a huge
amount of information on the Earth. Powerful Space probe "Messenger"
is equipped with a dual-mode camera, spectrometers, four species, altimeter,
and a magnetometer.
