Date acquired: March 21, 2012
<p>Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 240792733, 240792729, 240792725
Image ID: 1543743, 1543742, 1543741
Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
WAC filters: 9, 7, 6 (996, 748, 433 nanometers) in red, green, and blue
Center Latitude: 60.41°
Center Longitude: 351.5° E
Resolution: 147 meters/pixel
Scale: Abedin is 116 km (72 miles) in diameter
Incidence Angle: 60.6°
Emission Angle: 26.8°
Phase Angle: 33.7°
</p><p>Of Interest: Abedin crater is one of several large, fresh craters that formed within Mercury's northern volcanic plains deposit. The northern plains appear to be a thick deposit of relatively uniform composition, and Abedin also shows little color variation in its ejecta; portions of Abedin's impact melt are slightly more red in this view.
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This image was acquired as a high-resolution targeted color observation. Targeted color observations are images of a small area on Mercury's surface at resolutions higher than the 1-kilometer/pixel 8-color base map. During MESSENGER's one-year primary mission, hundreds of targeted color observations were obtained. During MESSENGER's extended mission, high-resolution targeted color observations are more rare, as the 3-color base map is covering Mercury's northern hemisphere with the highest-resolution color images that are possible.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
2012-05-09
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