Images From Messenger’s Mercury Orbit

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Photo
Scientists on the Messenger project are poring over the first 1,500 images ever collected from orbit around Mercury, in preparation for the start of global mapping this week. In its first shot of the Solar System’s innermost planet (right), the probe produced this image of the planet’s south polar...

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