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Emily Lakdawalla • Jan 12, 2008
The latest from Mercury
This image is just over a day old. In the time since it was taken and the time that I'm posting it MESSENGER has flown 300,000 kilometers closer to Mercury, 18% of the remaining distance....here we come! I'll follow this image with the two posted on previous days so you can see how Mercury is growing in the forward view.
NASA / JHUAPL / CIW
MESSENGER approaches Mercury
MESSENGER snapped this image of a crescent Mercury through its narrow-angle camera on January 11 at 09:06 UTC when it was about 1.7 million kilometers from the planet.Support our core enterprises
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