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MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging by Decius at 6:08 pm EDT, Sep 7, 2005 |
The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity assist swingby of its home planet on Aug. 2, 2005. Several hundred images, taken with the wide-angle camera in MESSENGER’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), were sequenced into a movie documenting the view from MESSENGER as it departed Earth.
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