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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2022 August 9   
      
                                   Leaving Earth   
       Video Credit: NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Inst. Washington   
      
      Explanation: What it would look like to leave planet Earth? Such an   
      event was recorded visually in great detail by the MESSENGER spacecraft   
      as it swung back past the Earth in 2005 on its way in toward the planet   
      Mercury. Earth can be seen rotating in this time-lapse video, as it   
      recedes into the distance. The sunlit half of Earth is so bright that   
      background stars are not visible. The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft is   
      now in orbit around Mercury and has recently concluded the first   
      complete map of the surface. On occasion, MESSENGER has continued to   
      peer back at its home world. MESSENGER is one of the few things created   
      on the Earth that will never return. At the end of its mission   
      MESSENGER crashed into Mercury's surface.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: stars of dust   
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