MESSENGER Readies for its Encounter with Mercury
On January 9, 2008, NASA MESSENGER spacecraft snapped one of its first images of Mercury at a distance of about 2.7 million kilometers 1.7 million miles from the planet.
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NASA ID
PIA10166
Date Created
January 10, 2008
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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