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A Tiny Spacecraft Just Reached Mercury After an Eight-Year Journey!
Photo: Harsh Kumar / Unsplash
After flying millions of miles through the darkness of space, a brave little space probe called BepiColombo has finally arrived at Mercury, the closest planet to our Sun! This robotic explorer will brave extreme heat to map the planet's surface and sniff out its magnetic field. Can you imagine living on a planet where a single day lasts for 59 Earth days?
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Newsround (BBC)
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