MESSENGER Departs Mercury
Click here to watch the movie created from images taken by MESSENGER as it departed Mercury after the flyby on January 14, 2008.

MESSENGER Flies through Mercury's Magnetosphere
Click here to watch an animation of the MESSENGER spacecraft flying through Mercury's magnetosphere on January 14, 2008, with the corresponding results obtained from the Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) instrument.

MESSENGER Approaches Mercury
Click here to watch a movie created from images taken by MESSENGER as the spacecraft approach Mercury and prepared for its flyby on January 14, 2008.

Keeping a Rendezvous with Mercury
Click here to watch a movie created from the optical navigation images taken as MESSENGER approached Mercury for its first flyby.

MESSENGER Bids Farewell to Venus
Click here to watch MESSENGER depart Venus during its second flyby of the planet on June 5, 2007.

Earth Departure Movie
Click here to watch the movie created from images snapped by MESSENGER as it flew by Earth on August 2, 2005.

The Launch of MESSENGER
Watch the MESSENGER spacecraft successfully launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 3, 2004 (35 MB).

Pre-launch Assembly and Loading Operations
View the final assembly stages of the MESSENGER spacecraft (20.1 MB) and its incorporation onto the launch vehicle (20.2 MB).

Movies of MESSENGER's Assembly
Watch daily movies of the assembly of the MESSENGER spacecraft, from March 2003 until the launch in August 2004 (click here).