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English: 29 March 2011, at 5:20 am EDT, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's innermost planet. Over the subsequent six hours, MESSENGER acquired an additional 363 images before downlinking some of the data to Earth. The MESSENGER team is currently looking over the newly returned data, which are still continuing to come down. |
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| Source | First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit (direct link) |
| Author | NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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MESSENGER is a NASA mission and adheres to the space agency's guidelines for image use and reproduction. |
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