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yes, MESSENGER has explored Mercury. On March 18, 2011 a year from today, MESSENGER will transition from orbiting the Sun to being the first spacecraft ever to orbit the planet Mercury.
MESSENGER never landed on mercury
No probe has landed on Mercury, however Mariner 10 and Messenger have both surveyed Mercury. Messenger is due to go into orbit around Mercury in 2011 to survey and map the entire planet.
The planet Mercury was named after the Greek god Hermes. Mercury is his Roman name. A Latin god - the messenger (i.e. the swift one).
The Messenger spacecraft orbited around Mercury from 2011 to 2015, providing valuable data and insights about the planet's surface, composition, and magnetic field.
The name of the Latin messenger god is Mercury.
Mariner 10, in 1974-1975 and Messenger from 2008 until it was crashed into Mercury in 2015.
Mercurius (Mercury) was the Roman messenger of the gods.
The first pictures were taken by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft in 2011.http://www.space.com/11952-latest-photos-mercury-nasa-messenger-probe-part2.html
It didn't.... It's supposed to arrive there and orbit it on March,18,2011
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Mercury, named for the Roman gods' messenger, is the closest planet to the and the smallest in the solar system. Mercury is too much in line with the Sun to be observed against a dark sky; therefore it is always seen during morning or evening twilight. In 2008, the MESSENGER spacecraft made the first flybys of Mercury since the 1970s. Messenger is scheduled to go into orbit about Mercury in 2011 for a year-long reconnaisance mission.