These images were taken every five minutes by MESSENGER as the spacecraft departed Mercury after completing its second flyby on October 6, 2008. A portion of the same sequence, totaling 198 images in all, has also been made into a movie.
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Title: So Long, Mercury - Until We Meet Again!
Creator: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Date Created: 2009-07-14
Rights: JPL
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