Earth Departure Movie From MESSENGER Spacecraft

A reader writes:"The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft took 358 images during a gravity assist swingby of Earth on Aug. 2, 2005. Those images were sequenced into an MPEG movie showing the view from MESSENGER as it departed Earth."

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Re:Looks like that Orbiter simulator

[imsabbel]

Er, you do need to know about shit of programming to download nasa imagemaps and slap them on a sphere to make it look like earth... (and yeah, a specular map of the oceans).
Orbiter was about the 214th program that did that....