Earth Departure Movie
October 7, 2008
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.
credit: NASA
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Disaster Accident, Environment, MESSENGER, Discovery program, Mercury spacecraft, Entertainment Culture, Spacecraft, Gravity assist, Mercury, Spaceflight, Technology Internet
