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Caption:
A close-up of the Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) profile of Mercury acquired during MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby on January 14, 2008. Comparison with an Arecibo radar image mosaic (bottom) provided by Harmon and co-workers shows that the two largest depressions are adjacent impact craters. The craters have rim-to-rim diameters of 107 km (left) and 122 km (right). The root mean square roughness of the floor the larger crater is ~35 m. The vertical exaggeration in the figure is 35:1.
Background Info:
These images are from MESSENGER, a NASA Discovery mission to conduct the first orbital study of the innermost planet, Mercury. For information regarding the use of images, see the MESSENGER image use policy .
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Mercury | |
| System | ||
| Target Type | Planet | |
| Mission | MESSENGER | National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) |
| Instrument Host | MESSENGER | Arecibo Observatory |
| Host Type | Orbiter | Ground-Based Observatory |
| Instrument | Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) | Arecibo Radar |
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Color, Crater, Impact, Radar | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2008-01-30 | |
| Date in Caption | 2008-01-14 | |
| Image Credit | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Cornell University/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10381 | |
| Identifier | PIA10381 | |
