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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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Making a Mosaic
PIA10604:
Making a Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Craters in Caloris
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Craters in Caloris
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Craters with Dark Halos on Mercury
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Craters with Dark Halos on Mercury
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One Month Ago…
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One Month Ago…
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Geological Architecture
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Mercury's Geological Architecture
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury Shows its True Colors
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Mercury Shows its True Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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"The Spider" - Radial Troughs within Caloris
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Sodium Tail
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Mercury's Sodium Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Magnetic Field
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Mercury's Magnetic Field
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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First Laser Altimetry for Mercury
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First Laser Altimetry for Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Violent History
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Mercury's Violent History
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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The Great Caloris Basin on Mercury
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The Great Caloris Basin on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Seeking Information on Mercury's Mineralogy
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Seeking Information on Mercury's Mineralogy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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A close-up of the Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) profile of Mercury acquired during NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's first Mercury flyby on January 14, 2008.
PIA10381:
Topographic Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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This depiction of a simulated Mercury magnetosphere shows representations of the distortions of the planetary magnetic field lines (blue) by the solar wind.
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Mercury's Internal Magnetic Field
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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This frame from an animation shows a conceptual sketch of Mercury's magnetosphere at the time of NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's flyby.
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MESSENGER Flies through Mercury's Magnetosphere Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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This scene was imaged by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) during the spacecraft's flyby of Mercury on January 14, 2008.
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Double Ring Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Calcium was detected in the near-Mercury exosphere by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft and has also been observed telescopically from Earth.
PIA10199:
Mercury's Hydrogen Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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On January 13, 2008, beginning 30 hours before NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's closest approach to Mercury, the Wide Angle Camera, part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), began snapping images as it approached the planet.
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MESSENGER Approaches Mercury Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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After NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft completed its successful flyby of Mercury, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), took these images of the receding planet. This is a frame from an animation.
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MESSENGER Departs Mercury Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-29 Mercury MESSENGER
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After NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft completed its successful flyby of Mercury, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), took these images of the receding planet.
PIA10196:
MESSENGER's Departing Shots
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-28 Mercury MESSENGER
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On January 14, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to see the side of Mercury shown in this image -- the historic first look at the previously unseen side.
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A Closer Look at the Previously Unseen Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's team continued to study the high-resolution images taken during the Mercury flyby encounter on January 14, 2008, scarps (cliffs) that extend for long distances were discovered.
PIA10194:
Mercury's Long Cliffs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-26 Mercury MESSENGER
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft sped by Mercury on January 14, 2008, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) captured this shot looking toward Mercury's north pole.
PIA10193:
MESSENGER Looks to the North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-24 Mercury MESSENGER
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During NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's flyby of Mercury on January 14, 2008, part of the planned sequence of observations included taking images of the same portion of Mercury's surface from five different viewing angles.
PIA10192:
MESSENGER's Different Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-24 Mercury MESSENGER
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On January 14, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER flew by Mercury and snapped images of a large portion of the surface that had not been previously seen by spacecraft including numerous craters.
PIA10191:
Counting Mercury's Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-23 Mercury MESSENGER
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft approached Mercury on Jnuary 14, 2008, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) snapped this image of the crater Matisse.
PIA10190:
MESSENGER Dances by Matisse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-22 Mercury MESSENGER
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This visible-infrared image shows an incoming view of Mercury, about 80 minutes before NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's closest pass of the planet on January 14, 2008, from a distance of about 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles).
PIA10189:
Mercury - in Color!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-22 Mercury MESSENGER
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During its flyby of Mercury, on January 14, 2008 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft acquired the first high-resolution spectra of the planet's surface in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light.
PIA10188:
First MESSENGER Spectrum of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-21 Mercury MESSENGER
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On January 14, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft passed 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the surface of Mercury and snapped the first pictures of a side of Mercury not previously seen, with a view looking toward Mercury's south pole.
PIA10187:
Looking Toward the South Pole of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-20 Mercury MESSENGER
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired this view of Mercury's surface illuminated obliquely from the right by the Sun.
PIA10186:
MESSENGER Views an Intriguing Crater
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A complex history of geological evolution is recorded in this frame from the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument, taken during NASA's MESSENGER's close flyby of Mercury on January 14, 2008.
PIA10185:
Ridges and Cliffs on Mercury's Surface
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Just nine minutes after NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft passed 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the surface of Mercury, its closest distance to the planet during the January 14, 2008, flyby, the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) snapped this image.
PIA10184:
MESSENGER's First Image after Closest Approach
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On January 14, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) became the first instrument to measure the distance between a spacecraft and the surface of Mercury.
PIA10183:
First Results from the Mercury Laser Altimeter
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As NASA's MESSENGER neared Mercury on January 14, 2008, the spacecraft's Wide Angle Camera on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) took this image of the planet's full crescent.
PIA10179:
An Overview of Mercury as MESSENGER Approached
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The image shows part of a large, fresh crater with secondary crater chains located near Mercury's equator on the side of the planet newly imaged on January 14, 2008 by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA10178:
Mercury's Complex Cratering History
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Shortly following NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's closest approach to Mercury on January 14, 2008, the spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) instrument acquired this image as part of a mosaic that covers much of the sunlit portion of the hemisphere.
PIA10177:
MESSENGER Reveals Mercury's Geological History
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired an image mosaic of the sunlit portion of the planet.
PIA10176:
MESSENGER Views Mercury's Horizon
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As NASA's MESSENGER approached Mercury on January 14, 2008, the spacecraft's Narrow-Angle Camera on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument captured this view of the planet's rugged, cratered landscape illuminated obliquely by the Sun.
PIA10175:
MESSENGER Reveals Mercury in New Detail
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Just 21 minutes after NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's closest approach to Mercury, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) took this picture showing a variety of intriguing surface features, including craters as small as about 400 meters (about 400 yards) across.
PIA10174:
Detailed Close-up of Mercury's Previously Unseen Surface
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During its flyby of Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft acquired high-resolution images of the planet's surface. This image was obtained on January 14, 2008.
PIA10173:
Mercury's Cratered Surface
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On January 14, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft observed about half of the hemisphere missed by Mariner 10.
PIA10172:
MESSENGER's First Look at Mercury's Previously Unseen Side
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft approached Mercury for its first flyby, the Narrow Angle Camera, part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument acquired the nine images shown here taken from January 9 to 13, 2008.
PIA10171:
Rendezvous with Mercury Animation Icon
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On January 14, 2008, at 19:04:39 UTC (2:04:39 pm EST), NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft experienced its closest approach to Mercury, passing just 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the planet's surface.
PIA10170:
Countdown to MESSENGER's Closest Approach with Mercury
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With just one day until NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's historic flyby of Mercury, MESSENGER has Mercury clearly in its sights. The Narrow Angle Camera, part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), took this image on January 12, 2008.
PIA10169:
MESSENGER has Mercury in its Sights
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With just two days until NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's closest pass by Mercury, the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) is acquiring sets of images twice a day.
PIA10168:
MESSENGER Nears Mercury
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft continued to speed toward Mercury, preparing for its closest approach to the planet on Monday, January 14, 2008.
PIA10167:
MESSENGER Closes in on Mercury
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On January 9, 2008, NASA's 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.
PIA10166:
MESSENGER Readies for its Encounter with Mercury
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NASA's MESSENGER prepares to perform the Mercury orbit insertion burn in this animated artist's concept.
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Mercury Orbit Insertion (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-03 Mercury MESSENGER
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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.
PIA18148:
MESSENGER Departing Earth (Artist's Concept)
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