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PIA18148: MESSENGER Departing Earth (Artist's Concept)

Artist's impression of NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft as it leaves Earth, following its Aug. 3, 2004 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. aboard a Delta II rocket.

Target Name:	Mercury
Mission:	MESSENGER
Spacecraft:	MESSENGER
Product Size:	1800 x 1626 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Johns Hopkins University/APL
Other Information:	More artist's impressions from MESSENGER
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA18148.tif (8.784 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA18148.jpg (289.5 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Artist's impression of the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft as it leaves Earth, following its Aug. 3, 2004 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. aboard a Delta II rocket. The spacecraft will fly past Earth once, Venus twice and Mercury three times before starting a yearlong orbital study of the innermost planet in March 2011.

For information regarding the use of images, see the MESSENGER image use policy.

Image Credit:

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Image Addition Date:

2004-08-03