A portion of the rim of Degas crater is visible towards the top of this image. The hummocky texture of the interior crater wall is due to the slumping and downslope movement of material soon after the crater formed.
Date acquired: April 22, 2013
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 8944037
Image ID: 3929664
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 36.35° N
Center Longitude: 232.6° E
Resolution: 24 meters/pixel
Scale: The diagonal of this image is approximately 36 km (22 mi.) across.
Incidence Angle: 43.6°
Emission Angle: 12.7°
Phase Angle: 56.3°
Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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