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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.

The movie is in 368x208 16:9 .MP4 (PSP compatible) format. If you are viewing the digiKID mini site on your PSP (formatted for viewing on the PSP web browser) you can download it directly to your PSP using the wireless internet connection.

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This is a stop motion animation created by the digiKID along with two of his friends. They made heavy use of Apple’s iMovie ‘04 to create most of the special effects. They used Boinx’s iStopMotion to create the animation. It is in .MP4 format and will also play on a Sony PSP.

We hope you enjoy it.

-digiDAD

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This is a stop motion movie I made using a Kodak Easy Share camera and iMovie on my Dad’s Mac. It has been formated to play on the PSP but will play on other .MP4 video players.

I hope you enjoy it.

-digiKID

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