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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Aug 2015 at 17:48:08 (UTC)

Original – If one really wants to leave Earth this is what he would see looking back. This is what MESSENGER recorded during one of its Earth flybys.
Reason
Whoa!
Articles in which this image appears
Escape velocity, Gravity assist, Interplanetary spaceflight, List of Earth flybys, MESSENGER
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there
Creator
NASA
Unconfirmed reports indicate Nergaal has left Earth and is therefore off the grid. Sca (talk) 20:49, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:57, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]