This beautiful, unnamed crater is found within the Caloris impact basin, and formed partially atop another crater of similar size to its northwest. On the right-hand side of the image you can see the crater's central peak; at the upper left, you can see where the crater wall intersects what is left of the older crater's central peak.
Date acquired: December 24, 2011
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 233221689
Image ID: 1177142
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 36.6°
Center Longitude: 166.4° E
Resolution: 29 meters/pixel
Scale: Scene is approximately 30 km (19 miles) across
Incidence Angle: 36.6°
Emission Angle: 33.1°
Phase Angle: 69.7°
Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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