| Date acquired: December 31, 2011 Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 233814606 Image ID: 1205792 Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) Center Latitude: 27.7° Center Longitude: 122.7° E Resolution: 75 meters/pixel Scale: The scene is approximately 77 km (48 miles) across Incidence Angle: 36.2° Emission Angle: 30.9° Phase Angle: 29.4° Of Interest: A look at the rim of the Raditladi impact basin. Raditladi is a relatively young basin and host to beautiful hollows. The depth from the floor to its rim is around 3.5 km (over 2 miles) as measured by the Mercury Laser Altimeter - twice the average depth of the Grand Canyon. Imagine the view from Raditladi's rim! This image was acquired as a high-resolution targeted observation. Targeted observations are images of a small area on Mercury's surface at resolutions much higher than the 250-meter/pixel (820 feet/pixel) morphology base map or the 1-kilometer/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel) color base map. It is not possible to cover all of Mercury's surface at this high resolution during MESSENGER's one-year mission, but several areas of high scientific interest are generally imaged in this mode each week. | |
| Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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