PIA02419: Interior Peaks and Hilly Floored Crater


Interior Peaks and Hilly Floored Crater

Caption:

This crater (74 km diameter) just north of the Caloris Planitia displays interior and central peaks rising up from a hilly floor. The continuous ejecta deposits and secondary crater field are well defined. This image (FDS 79) was taken during the spacecraft's first encounter with Mercury.

Background Info:

The Mariner 10 mission, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, explored Venus in February 1974 on the way to three encounters with Mercury-in March and September 1974 and in March 1975. The spacecraft took more than 7,000 photos of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mercury
System
Target Type Planet
Mission Mariner
Instrument Host Mariner 10
Host Type Flyby Spacecraft
Instrument
Detector
Extra Keywords Crater, Grayscale, Moon
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2000-01-14
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA/JPL/Northwestern University
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02419
Identifier PIA02419