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On October 5, 2008 4:40 am EDT, MESSENGER successfully completed its second flyby of Mercury. The spectacular image shown here is one of the first to be returned and shows a WAC image of the departing planet taken about 90 minutes after the spacecraft’s closest approach to Mercury.

Mercury and MESSENGER - The Big Picture

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