File:Planet Mercury - GPN-2000-000465.jpg

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Description

English: Mariner 10's first image of Mercury acquired on March 24, 1974. During its flight, Mariner 10's trajectory brought it behind the lighted hemisphere of Mercury, where this image was taken, in order to acquire important measurements with other instruments. This picture was acquired from a distance of 3,340,000 miles (5,380,000 km) from the surface of Mercury. The diameter of Mercury (3,031 miles; 4,878 km) is about 1/3 that of Earth.

Date

24 March 1974

Source

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00437

This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA00437 and Alternate ID: GPN-2000-000465.

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Author

NASA/JPL/USGS

Licensing

	This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:14, 10 December 2015	4,878 × 4,878 (2.14 MB)	PlanetUser	frame right (image will be left)
	10:03, 9 December 2015	2,599 × 4,878 (1.01 MB)	PlanetUser	original source from http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA00437.jpg
	01:51, 22 March 2015	2,557 × 4,800 (3.71 MB)	Jcpag2012	upscaled
	22:10, 4 June 2005	2,599 × 4,878 (2.58 MB)	Dbenbenn	original 2599x4878 version
	00:09, 11 November 2004	546 × 1,024 (236 KB)	StarryTG~commonswiki	Planet Mercury