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While Mercury may be the smallest planet, it is also the speediest, making a year on Mercury just 88 Earth days, NASA wrote.

Humanity has never has a picture of Mercury this up close before the MESSENGER's arrival on the planet. Here is how that photo was taken and the information gleamed from it.

Winner was headed home on a school bus when she was shot in the head for simply wanting to learn in defiance of the taliban she would be the nobel peace prize last year. she's now 17. they welcome the sentencing of the ten militants. >> back in this country, an amazing twist to a missing person's case. the fiance of a missing kayaker has been charged with his murder. she had reported to police that their kayaks capsized about 60 miles north of new york city. on the hudson river. his body has not been found. police say there were inconsistencies in the woman's story. no word yet on possible mot...

Degrees currently in care beau maine. as we head outside temperatures warming up nicely. in chicago upper 60s. these are the areas out west. la beautiful 81 degrees. but in phoenix, arizona you are talking 101 degrees for the high temperature. it is going to be a long summer out there. across parts of the mid atlantic you are looking at areas of rain. in the plains there will be a chance for severe weather as we head into the weekend saturday and sunday. it's a marginal risk. not a huge deal but have a way to get the warnings coming up as we head into saturday and sunday out there. now we want...

>> bret: sas is a says there is ice on the closest planet to the sun. messenger spacecraft found evidence of frozen water as much as 65 feet deep at mercury's north pole. messenger spacecraft is the first to orbit the closest planet to our sun, mercury and it's been studying that planet for a year-and-a-half. now a story about another kind of high. it's legal under state law to smoke marijuana recreationmly in certain places out west but it does not mean you can get away with it without consequences. dan springer with a look in the legal and professional weeds. >> when voters in washington sta...