Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury - first ever obtained from Mercury orbit -

Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury - first ever obtained from Mercury orbit - 

First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit

At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's innermost planet. Over the subsequent six hours, MESSENGER acquired an additional 363 images before downlinking some of the data to Earth. The MESSENGER team is currently looking over the newly returned data, whic


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