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On this day in 1974, the Mariner 10 acquired its first image of Mercury. This picture was snapped from a distance of 3,340,000 miles (5,380,000 km) from the surface, and was taken in order to acquire important measurements of the swift planet. 📸: NASA https://t.co/Wc77yKubB1 — PolitiTweet.org