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Mercury - The Hollowed Halls of Tyagaraja

Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2012
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Mercury - The Hollowed Halls of Tyagaraja
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Uploader comment: This image, taken with the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), gives us a stunning high-resolution view of Tyagaraja crater. The crater was named for Kakarla Tyagabrahmam, colloquially known as Tyāgarājar, the 18th century composer of Carnatic music or classical South Indian music.


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