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The gallery contains a wide variety of images, photos, animations, and movies about all aspects of the mission, from pre-launch preparations, to images returned from the planetary flybys, to artists' renditions of the MESSENGER spacecraft on its voyage to the inner solar system. New materials are added as the mission progresses, and the featured image or movie is updated regularly. For information regarding the use of MESSENGER images, see the image use policy.
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See Mercury's newly named Eminescu crater, whose central peak ring exhibits unusual color characteristics that the MESSENGER team is currently studying.
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Browse through the images and data returned by the MESSENGER mission. Images and data are available from MESSENGER's planetary flybys to date.
Watch movies acquired by the MESSENGER mission during its planetary encounters. Also watch the many preparations involved as the MESSENGER spacecraft is readied for its journey and then launched successfully from Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 3, 2004.
Watch animations of MESSENGER's path through the inner solar system, including views of the flybys of Earth, Venus, and Mercury, and of the spacecraft once it enters into orbit around Mercury.
View depictions by artists of the MESSENGER spacecraft departing Earth and becoming the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
Check out photos of the spacecraft as it is tested, loaded for transport, prepared for launch, and finally blasts off, on its way to the inner solar system and Mercury orbit.
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