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Interior Peaks and Hilly Floored Crater
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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 | |
