This image shows a portion of Mercury's surface mainly consisting of smooth plains material. This lighter, smoother area of plains is younger than the darker, rougher surrounding terrain near the edges of this image. Firdousi crater and its halo of small secondary craters is also apparent in this image, in the lower left quadrant.
Date acquired: July 17, 2011
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 219349510, 219349512, 219349518
Image ID: 513659, 513658, 513662
Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
WAC filter: 9 (1000 nanometers), 7 (750 nanometers), 6 (433 nanometers) as red-green-blue
Center Latitude: 6.77°
Center Longitude: 69.01° E
Resolution: 1330 meters/pixel
Scale: The large crater in the lower left quadrant of this image is about 134 kilometers (80 miles) in diameter
Incidence Angle: 52.4°
Emission Angle: 0.3°
Phase Angle: 52.4°
Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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