In this image, a portion of the 116 km- (73 mile-) diameter Abedin Crater is visible. The floor of the crater is generally smooth, and hosts many small troughs that are interpreted to be graben. Graben form as the result of extensional (i.e. pull-apart) stresses, which in this case may have resulted from the cooling and solidification of either impact melt or volcanic fill inside Abedin, similar to that seen in other basins across Mercury.
Date acquired: January 27, 2012
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 236192195
Image ID: 1320489
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 62.63°
Center Longitude: 348.5° E
Resolution: 21 meters/pixel
Scale: This image is 37 km (23 miles) wide from left corner to right corner
Incidence Angle: 80.6°
Emission Angle: 46.4°
Phase Angle: 127.1°
Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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