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## Video: Watch Highlights of MESSENGER's Crash Into Mercury

[Watch (HLS stream): Watch Highlights of MESSENGER's Crash Into Mercury](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XyD9z8S9.m3u8) (0:43)

![Watch Highlights of MESSENGER's Crash Into Mercury](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/XyD9z8S9/poster.jpg?width=720)

_Published 2015-04-30. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft ended its mission on April 30, 2015 by crash landing on the planet Mercury._


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] And welcome to Slooh's latest live show. This is our broadcast on the Messenger Mission as it's comes to its rather dramatic end. This is actually an image of what the crash site. Expected for the spacecraft is gonna look like here. This is the, this is the planet there. This is planet Mercury at noon from Arizona. [ LAUGH ] [ MUSIC ]

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