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MESSENGER Departing Earth Spacecraft:   MESSENGER Produced by:   NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Copyright:  NASA Copyright Free Policy Date Released:  29 September 2007 Related Documents MESSENGER Mercury Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size VSS00059.jpg JPEG 640 x 578 50K VSS00059.jpg JPEG 1800 x 1626 1M Artist's impression of the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft as it leaves Earth, following its Aug. 3, 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.

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