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Johns Hopkins University
Date Published: July 7, 2004
Title: MESSENGER Departing Earth
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Artist's impression of the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft as it leaves Earth, following its scheduled August 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.
Related Links: MESSENGER Web Site |
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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