
As NASA MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft Narrow Angle Camera NAC on the Mercury Dual Imaging System MDIS acquired an image mosaic of the sunlit portion of the planet.
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NASA ID
PIA10176
Date Created
January 17, 2008
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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