MESSAGE orbiter arrives at Moho after its long time travelling

Year 18, Day 113

After years of travelling, the MESSAGE spacecraft has finally arrived at the closest planet to the Sun, Moho!

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It arrived just about a month ago, and has already given us comprehensive and readable maps of the surface of Moho and useful scientific data about what it's like at Moho.

MESSAGE took so long to get to Moho because of the several gravity assist flybys it had to do at both Eve and Moho itself even. But after all of this, MESSAGE finally was able to slow down enough to orbit Moho! Ever since that time a month ago, it has been sending back amazing pictures and orbital maps, along with science data as well, like temperature, gravity, magnetosphere readings, pressure, and more.

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It's hard to say how long MESSAGE will be alive; however, we can say that when it does die, it will be deliberately crashed into the surface of Moho as it cannot function anymore by that point.

But until then, MESSAGE will continue to pump out data and pictures for as long as it has fuel and will likely continue to surprise scientists for years to come.