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Mercury - A Lovely View

Posted on Friday, March 2, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Mercury - A Lovely View
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Uploader comment: In this view of Mercury's limb, the Rembrandt basin is at top right with Kipling crater to its left. Because MESSEGNER's orbit is highly elliptical, the spacecraft is afforded a beautiful view of Mercury's southern hemisphere on every orbit.


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