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Mercury’s Shadowy North Pole
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 22:41
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Part of a stereographic projection of Mercury’s north pole
Talk about northern exposure! This is a section of a much larger image, released today by the MESSENGER team, showing the heavily-cratered north pole of Mercury as seen by the MESSENGER spacecraft’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument.
See the full-size image below:
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Post tags: crater, Hobbit, ice, JHUAPL, map, Mercury, MESSENGER, NASA, north pole, Prokofiev, Tolkien
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2012-11-27 22:21:28
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/98651/mercurys-north-pole/
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