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...Seoul. Shin had denied rumors about his father's past until two men told local media last week that the elder Shin, who is deceased, had tortured them when he was a policeman. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun had earlier said he would establish a commission to probe the sensitive period of Japan's colonial rule...
...ROCK NASA readies a probe to Mercury--the first in 30 years...
...moon. Its most prominent feature is the Caloris Basin, an 800-mile (1,300-km)-wide crater probably formed by an asteroid impact when the planet was still young. MESSENGER will provide the first picture of the whole basin, half of which was in darkness when the Mariner 10 probe flew by 30 years...
MESSENGER isn't due to enter Mercury's orbit until March 2011. But the probe will be busy all along the way, getting a gravity boost from Earth next year, then Venus twice in an ever tightening spiral toward the first planet from...
...MESSENGER PROBE A nimble little spacecraft, MESSENGER weighs just 2,400 lbs. (1,100 kg), 55% of which is fuel. It carries a dual camera system and six other scientific instruments, all of which operate on solar power-something of which there is no shortage so close to the sun. A sunshade made of ceramic cloth keeps the hardware running at a balmy room temperature...