MESSENGER Departing Earth Artist Concept
Artist impression of NASA 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.
- Date
- 2004-08-03
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- illustration (NASA artwork)
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"MESSENGER Departing Earth Artist Concept" (2004-08-03). NASA/JPL/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18148Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15557.
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