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Mercury - Bashed Basho

Posted on Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Mercury - Bashed Basho
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Uploader comment: This striking, oblique image of Basho shows the distinctive dark halo that encircles the crater. The halo is composed of "Low Reflectance Material" (LRM), which was excavated from depth when the crater was formed.


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