Earth Departure Movie [from Messenger spacecraft]

MESSENGER site ^ | august 2, 2005

[cloud8]

Earth Departure Movie

The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity assist swingby of its home planet on Aug. 2, 2005. Several hundred images, taken with the wide-angle camera in MESSENGER’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), were sequenced into a movie documenting the view from MESSENGER as it departed Earth.

[cloud8]

Earth really is beautiful.

Go here and click on the link. Plays as a quicktime movie on my machine.

[newgeezer]

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[billybudd]

Awesome!

[hombre_sincero]

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/flyby_movie.html

right click and download the file when you get there al;so - it's a lot faster that way

[Constitution Day]

Try this

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/flyby_movie.html

[billybudd]

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/flyby_movie.html

[manwiththehands]

Cool movie. Thanks!

[TexasGreg]

What a great video that is .... so very cool.

[Pyro7480]

Ping!

[MineralMan]

Amazing video. Ours is an amazing planet!

[martin_fierro]

Coolness!

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[Semper911]

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[BigBobber]

Very nice! Thanks for the link.

What always amazes me is how shiny and jewel-like the earth is.

[theDentist]

I live on a big round ball.
I never do dream I may fall.
And even if one day I do,
Well I'll jump off and smile back at you.

I don't even know where we are.
They'll tell you we're circling a star.
Well I'll take their word, I don't know
But I'm dizzy so it may be so.

I'm riding a big round ball.
I never do dream I may fall.
And even the high must lay low
So when I do fall I'll be glad to go.

I live on a big round ball.
I never do dream I may fall.
And even if one day I do,
Well I'll jump off and smile back at you.

-Jimmy Buffett "Defying Gravity"

[cripplecreek]

Kinda curious if there were any Atlantic or Caribbean hurricanes at that time. At about 5 seconds you can spot what looks like a well defined hurricane but I can't tell where it is due to the distance. (northern hemisphere)

[cloud8]

Thanks for the links. I can never get enough of this stuff.

My desktop at work is the famous Earth at Night, featured as an astronomy pic of the day here, for anyone who doesn't have it.

[SlowBoat407]

Eerie and haunting to think of departing earth like that. Thanks.

[T'wit]

Thanks for posting, fascinating show!

[cloud8]

> Kinda curious if there were any Atlantic or Caribbean hurricanes at that time.

Good question! It might have been Irene. Check it out here: Atlantic Tropical Season 2005.

[eastsider]

Way cool! Tx for posting this.