NASA's Messenger craft first photo

[DavidU]

The first of many more to come.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/mercury_orbit_image.html

[supernova1965]

Thanks for the link Dave nice image

[MrB]

If I hadn't read the body of text under the image, I'd have dismissed it as yet another Moon photo!

Very cool.

[Jen]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: cool pics :D

[astroron]

Ditto Jen:D
Look forward to the next years worth of pics and data:thumbsup:
Cheers

[Ric]

Thanks for the link Dave.

It's a lovely clear image, it's going to be fascinating to see what Mercury is like as more images come through.