Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) Ka tīmata mā tētahi whakamātautau tūtukitanga (ka taea e ngā kaihautū mokowhiti te peke i tēnei whakamātautau). He pono, he teka rānei, ko Mercury:. 1) Ko te aorangi e tata ana ki te ra i roto i to tatou pūnaha solar. 2) He wera rawa, kāore e taea te wai te noho ki reira. 3) He mea e whakamahia ana i roto i ngā pāmahana karaihe tawhito. 4) He aorangi kāore koe i te tino whakaaro. Whakautu: He pono, he teka, he pono (engari ehara i te mea e korerohia ana e tatou i roto i tenei korero) a kei te whakaaro ahau ko te Nama 4 he pono ano hoki. Ki te kore koe e eke ki te whakamātautau, tērā pea nā te mea he kino (he iti rawa rānei) te pānuitanga a Mercury (te aorangi). Ranei, he rama kino noa iho. E huri ana a Mercury i te 35,983,125 maero mai i te ra. Whakatauritea ki te whenua -- e 93 miriona maero te tawhiti o te ra. Na te tata o Mercury ki te ra ka uaua te kite engari i te ata me te ahiahi. Koinei pea tētahi take e kore ai tātou e whakaaro nui ki a ia. I tētahi atu ringa, ko Venus, ko te aorangi i waenganui i te Ao me Mercury, te mea ko te aorangi tino mārama i te rangi. He tino marama, kua pohehetia hei rererangi. Ka tukuna e te paerata te rererangi ki te ruku i muri i te pohehe o Venus mo te rererangi e haere mai ana. Engari hoki mai ki a Mercury. Kei te aro nui mai te pāpāho i tēnei wā nā te mea ka tae mai tētahi manuhiri. Ko te waka ā-ao a NASA MESSENGER (he kupu poto mō te MMercury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) kei te tūpono ki te tukinga ki runga i a Mercury. I whakarewahia te pūtirotiro i te tau 2004, ā, neke atu i te ono me te hawhe tau i haere ai i mua i tana tīmatanga ki te huri i a Mercury i te 18 o Poutu-te-rangi 2011. Inaianei, kei te pau te wahie o te MESSENGER, ā, e ai ki a NASA, ka pa ki te mata o te ao i te 8,750 mph (3.91 kiromita ia hēkona) i te 30 o Aperira. Kāore e taea e koe te kite i te pānga nā te mea ka hinga a Messenger ki te taha o Mercury e anga atu ana ki te Ao. Kāore he huarahi hei whakaora i te waka ā-ao, engari ko ngā kaiwhakahaere o te misioni i te Whare Wānanga o Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) i Laurel, Maryland, e mahi ana i ngā mea e taea ana e rātau hei whakaroa i te mea kāore e taea te karo. Kua whakamahia e rātau te iti o te wahie i mahue ki runga i te waka hei whakahaere i te waka ā-ao kia mau ai ki te ā-ira. Ka mahia e rātau tētahi mahi whakamutunga i te Paraire, i te 24 o Aperira. "I muri i tēnei...
Ka tū te waka ā-ao ki Mercury i tēnei marama. Kua tū te waka ā-roto o MESSENGER i te kōrori mai i te 2011.