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  • Released Thursday, April 11, 2013
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
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A NASA spacecraft beams back farewell images of our planet.

A NASA spacecraft beams back farewell images of our planet.

Watch this video to see departing views of Earth taken by MESSENGER.

Scientists imaged Earth during the flyby to test and calibrate instruments aboard the spacecraft.

Scientists imaged Earth during the flyby to test and calibrate instruments aboard the spacecraft.

MESSENGER was more than 100,000 miles from Earth when it captured this image.

MESSENGER was more than 100,000 miles from Earth when it captured this image.

This image of Earth and the moon (left of center) was taken by MESSENGER from a distance of 114 million miles.

This image of Earth and the moon (left of center) was taken by MESSENGER from a distance of 114 million miles.

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Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Video and images courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

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