One year ago, MESSENGER became the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury. On March 18, 2012, MESSENGER completed its one-year primary mission and began a yearlong extended mission that includes a number of new scientific observation campaigns. The image shown here was acquired yesterday and is the first of MESSENGER's extended mission.
Date acquired: March 18, 2012
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 240541431
Image ID: 1531424
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 24.41°
Center Longitude: 6.77° E
Resolution: 42 meters/pixel
Scale: This image is approximately 43 kilometers (27 miles) across.
Incidence Angle: 28.95°
Emission Angle: 10.21°
Phase Angle: 29.40°
Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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