Just 21 minutes after NASA MESSENGER spacecraft closest approach to Mercury, the Narrow Angle Camera NAC took this picture showing a variety of intriguing surface features, including craters as small as about 400 meters about 400 yards across.
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Title: Detailed Close-up of Mercury Previously Unseen Surface
Creator: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Date Created: 2008-01-16
Rights: JPL
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