article_snippet.sent: The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER (an acronym for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is about to crash onto Mercury.
article_snippet.sent: The probe was launched in 2004 and traveled more than six and a half years before The probe started orbiting Mercury on March 18, 2011.
article_snippet.sent: Now, MESSENGER is running out of fuel and NASA says MESSENGER will hit the planet's surface at 8,750 mph (3.91 kilometers per second) around April 30.
article_snippet.sent: You won't be able to see MESSENGER hit because MESSENGER will crash on the side of Mercury facing away from Earth.
article_snippet.sent: So the mission MESSENGER is ending, but scientists say scientists'll be busy for years studying data from the probe.
highlights_snippet.sent: Spacecraft to crash on Mercury this month .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: MESSENGER probe has been in orbit since 2011 .