*News from the Messenger*

"This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the solar system's innermost planet,"

Nasa's Messenger spacecraft snaps the first image from it's orbit around Mercury. Messenger was launched from Earth on August 2004 and has made 3 passes since. It is the first satellite ever complete the difficult task of entering orbit around the sun's closest resident.

Read the whole story at the jump to space.com.