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In May 2010, Messenger took a look back toward home--that brighter spot at lower left is Earth, and to its right, the smaller bright spot is the moon. The image was captured with the Wide Angle Camera when Messenger was about 114 million miles from Earth. Click here for a larger view.
March 17, 2011 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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