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Space photos of the day: Mercury

03/18/2011 12:01 pm ET This image of Mercury, captured early in the morning on March 29, 2011, is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's innermost planet. The dominant rayed crater is Debussy.

SpaceX rocket sends cargo to space station, sticks another landing

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Space photos of the day: Tsunamis

03/11/2011 12:06 pm ET These false-color images taken by NASA鈥檚 Terra satellite show the city of Ishinomaki, northern Japan on August 8, 2008 (top) and March 14, 2011. Ishinomaki is one of several coastal cities brutalized by the swirling wall of waves from the tsunami caused by the earthquake that devastated northern Japan on March 11. Water is dark blue in this false-color image. Plant-covered land is red, exposed earth is tan, and the city is silver.