Saturday, April 13, 2013

Complex Crater Anaglyph


As promised in yesterday's featured image, here is another 3D anaglyph that was created from recently acquired images. View it with a pair of red-cyan 3D glasses to get the full effect and to see deep into this crater. The topography appears exaggerated in the stereo view of this roughly one-kilometer deep crater, accentuating the terraces on the crater's walls and the central peak, topped with hollows, rising from the crater's floor. This image has been rotated 90° to the right (such that north is to the right) for better viewing with the red-cyan glasses.

Date acquired: March 22, 2013
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET) (since January 8, 2013): 6291928, 6292156
Image ID: 3741269, 3741270
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 25.11°
Center Longitude: 266.4° E
Resolution: 36 meters/pixel
Scale: The diameter of this crater is 31 kilometers (19 miles)
Incidence Angle: 44.7°, 44.8°
Emission Angle: 40.5°, 35.5°
Phase Angle: 72.9°, 78.1°

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

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