Back to Article List From the September 2009 issue Will the Messenger probe to Mercury be able to get a photograph of the asteroid Icarus? John Lockwood, Washington, D.C. By Astronomy Staff | Published: September 28, 2009 | Last updated on May 18, 2023 Artist rendition of the MESSENGER space probe to Mercury. NASA/JHUAPL/CIW No. Icarus will be way too faint for MESSENGER’s instruments to observe it.
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