A Small Cater on Mercury

Nice Specimen of a Crater. Click for larger. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Wow, look at this beautiful example of a crater.  It has a nice central peak and steep walls, unknown what the bright material is on the floor.

This crater has not been named although  I would imagine this crater will get some study and be named after a time.

The image was taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft’s Narrow Angle Camera so the resolution is very high, just 100 meters/pixel with the crater being about 22 miles (36 km) in diameter.

The crater is located at Latitude -54.33o and Longitude 311.2o


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