Nobokov Crater

The crater Nobokov exhibits a rugged basin ring and degraded crater rim. The inset color image suggests that the basin floor may be of a slightly different composition than the surrounding material. The inset color image is a composite of the MDIS Wide Angle Camera filters with the 1000-nm filter depicted in red, the 750-nm filter depicted in green, and the 430-nm filter depicted in blue. The blueish hue in the color image reveals that Nabokov has a slightly shallower spectral slope than many of the younger volcanic terrains on Mercury.

Date acquired: January 10, 2012
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 234661409
Image ID: 1246800
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: -14.57°
Center Longitude: 55.18° E
Resolution: 137 meters/pixel
Scale: Nabokov crater is 166 km (103 mi.) across.
Incidence Angle: 62.7°
Emission Angle: 2.2°
Phase Angle: 60.5°

Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington