MESSENGER Gallery October 2008 - Crescent Mercury
MESSENGER successfully flew by Mercury on Oct. 6, 2008, using the planet’s gravity to alter the probe’s path and help put it on track to become, in March 2011, the first spacecraft ever to orbit the innermost planet in the solar system. This image, acquired about 89 minutes before the craft’s closest approach to Mercury, resembles the optical navigation images taken leading up to the flyby.
Original post by interia@firma.interia.pl (INTERIA.PL)



