As the MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera, (NAC), on the Mercury Dual Imaging System, (MDIS), acquired an image mosaic of the sunlit portion of the planet. This image is one of those mosaic frames and was acquired on January 14, 2008, 18:10 UTC, when the spacecraft was about 18,000 kilometers, (11,000 miles), from the surface of Mercury, about 55 minutes before MESSENGER's closest approach to the planet.

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