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Mercury - The Floor is Lava

Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Mercury - The Floor is Lava
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Uploader comment: Have you ever played a game whereby you pretended the entire floor of a room is lava? In the case of this unnamed crater at Mercury's equator, it wasn't a game. Smooth floors are often observed in impact craters on Mercury that are the result of pooled impact melt.


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