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Mercury - Large Impacts Ring Twice

Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2011
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Mercury - Large Impacts Ring Twice
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Uploader comment: This image shows a double ring impact basin with a smaller, younger crater superimposed on its rim. Larger impacts, such as the one that created this basin, form ring structures instead of central peaks.


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