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Mercury - The Terminator is Here - in Color!

Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Mercury - The Terminator is Here - in Color!
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Uploader comment: The terminator of Mercury, shown here in color, is the line between light and dark, or day and night. On Mercury, three days are equivalent to two years, or in other words, the planet spins around its axis three times for every two orbits around the Sun.


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