Photographs of Mercury

The northern plains of Mercury, part of MESSENGER's color base map imaging campaign, which collects images taken through eight filters at an average resolution of 1.2 km/pixel.
NASA / Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory / Carnegie Institution of Washington

Detailed View of Mercury
The northern plains of Mercury, part of MESSENGER's color base map imaging campaign, which collects images taken through eight filters at an average resolution of 1.2 km/pixel. Image released June 16, 2011.

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