Spinning Mercury Map From Orbiter Snaps | Video

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 19:00 in Astronomy & Space

Thousands images from NASA MESSENGER's wide angle camera comprise this rotating false-color mosaic map. The visible colors are correlated with variations in Mercury's surface spectral reflectance.

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