Photographs of Mercury

This image was acquired May 24, 2011, as the MESSENGER spacecraft was high above Mercury's southern hemisphere.
NASA / Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory / Carnegie Institution of Washington

Crescent View
This image was acquired May 24, 2011, as the MESSENGER spacecraft was high above Mercury's southern hemisphere.

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