Scarlatti is a peak-ring basin with a diameter of 132 kilometers. Just north of the inner peak ring on the basin's floor is a large oblong pit, shown here in the highest resolution ever obtained. The large pit may have formed as a volcanic collapse feature, and this high-resolution view shows many hollows located on the pit's wall. Members of the MESSENGER team are using images like this one to unravel the geologic relationship between Scarlatti's pit and these newly seen hollows.
Date acquired: December 08, 2011
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 231863738
Image ID: 1111610
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 41.53°
Center Longitude: 259.1° E
Resolution: 29 meters/pixel
Scale: This image is approximately 30 kilometers (19 miles) across
Incidence Angle: 81.2°
Emission Angle: 10.7°
Phase Angle: 92.0°
Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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