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Video: This is what it looks like to rocket away from Earth

As it sped towards Mercury, a NASA spacecraft snapped 358 images looking back at Earth over 24 hours.

THIS AMAZING VIDEO of Earth was taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it rocketed away from our home planet on a one-way flight to Mercury, and appeared as a NASA Astronomy Picture Of The Day.

The spacecraft was launched in 2004 to study Mercury and completed its 2000th orbit of the planet earlier this year.

(APODVideos, YouTube)

They write:

The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity assist swingby of its home planet on Aug. 2, 2005. Several hundred images, taken with the wide-angle camera in MESSENGER’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), were sequenced into a movie documenting the view from MESSENGER as it departed Earth.

Comprising 358 frames taken over 24 hours, the movie follows Earth through one complete rotation. The spacecraft was 40,761 miles (65,598 kilometers) above South America when the camera started rolling on Aug. 2. It was 270,847 miles (435,885 kilometers) away from Earth — farther than the Moon’s orbit — when it snapped the last image on Aug. 3.

Jennifer Welsh

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    Sep 17th 2023, 7:40 AM

    1% of people own 50% of the worlds wealth 10 % owns another 40 % and 89% of us own the last 10 % . How did we allow this to happen and what are we going to do about it

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    @Robert Halvey: capitalism my friend, the only way

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    @Robert Halvey: 20% of people in Ireland pay 80% of annual income tax. How did we let that happen?

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    @: educate me please, I don’t seem to be able to find it!!

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    @Robert Halvey: Insider trading! These people know whats coming down the line and whats a good investment to make at any given time, out govt cronies too! Hell they likely can even influence a lot as well. They invest and they get richer. How can this be stopped – at this point it can’t.

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    @Robert Halvey: they sell crap and you keep buying.

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    @Robert Halvey: they got out their took personal financial risks , succeeded (and several failures) while the rest sat back and expecting the world to do everything for them

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    Sep 17th 2023, 8:54 AM

    ‘These include tax incentives’
    The Irish Stock Exchange has been dying for years. The brokers milked it for all they could and now that it’s on its last legs, they want a bailout.
    Let the proper part of capitalism take its course and let it sink or swim.
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    The main reason for the switch to US listing for these companies is the surge in indexation in recent years. If a company is listed on a major stock index like the S&P500, for example, any fund tracking that index has to hold your shares.

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    The Smurfits came from England and created a lot of employment, like the Guinness family I don’t understand what anyone has against them, other than self hatred.

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    I have bought Irish stock on nyse as can’t buy on Irish stock exchange as living in US , they have been very well performing over the last 10 years.

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    IS profit before people fair Capitalism???

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    @Mick Hanna: fare is fair

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