This image, taken with the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), gives us a spectacular close-up look at an unnamed complex crater in Mercury's northern hemisphere. At the top we see wall terraces containing ponds of impact melt. At the bottom is the crater's central peak, which displays bright material and possibly hollows near its summit.
Date acquired: February 01, 2012
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 236617390
Image ID: 1340969
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 50.84°
Center Longitude: 93.60° E
Resolution: 20 meters/pixel
Scale: The edges of the image are about 10 km (6 mi.) long.
Incidence Angle: 66.6°
Emission Angle: 10.8°
Phase Angle: 55.7°
Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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