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Description	First high-resolution image of Mercury transmitted by the MESSENGER spacecraft (in false color, 11 narrow-band colour filters)
Date	released 2008 Jan 22
Source	http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=132
Author	NASA/ Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/ Carnegie Institution of Washington

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