Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Messenger's 2013 Year in Review


The year 2013 has been another year of operations and discoveries for MESSENGER, finally including 100% image coverage of the planet by the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)! As another year draws to a close, we look back at some of the featured images from the year, and look forward to continued operations, including some of the highest-resolution images ever taken of Mercury, in 2014!

January: They Call Me Muddy Waters
February: Colors of the Innermost Planet
March: A Colorful Group
April: An Unnamed Wonder
May: 100% Coverage
June: It's a Sublimation Formation!
July: Digital Elevation Model of Mercury's Northern Hemisphere
August: Peek-a-boo!
September: A Volcanic View
October: Degas' Impression
November: A Late Holloween
December: On the Horizon

You can also revisit previous yearly compilations from 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.

Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

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