MESSENGER's Rendezvous with Mercury
As the MESSENGER spacecraft approached Mercury for its first flyby, the Narrow Angle Camera, part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument, took a series of images of the planet in support of spacecraft navigation. The images were taken from January 9 to 13, 2008, as MESSENGER closed to between 1.7 million miles and 470,000 miles (2.7 million kilometers and 760,000 kilometers)from Mercury.
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Image CreditNASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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