This image, taken with the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), shows a simple crater within Rembrandt Basin. Running through the crater is a lobate scarp, formed as Mercury's large iron core cooled and contracted, generating compressive forces that pushed one section of the planet's crust over the top of another section. Determining the geometry of such scarps and the time periods when deformation occurred can help scientists to understand the thermal history of the planet.
Date acquired: February 05, 2012
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 236961590
Image ID: 1357377
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: -29.79°
Center Longitude: 83.26° E
Resolution: 184 meters/pixel
Scale: The large crater at the bottom of the image is about 59 km (37 miles) in diameter.
Incidence Angle: 57.8°
Emission Angle: 39.0°
Phase Angle: 78.2°
Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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