Date acquired: January 23, 2012<br><p>Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 235766888, 235766929, 235766969<br>
Image ID: 1300010, 1300011, 1300012<br>
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)<br>
Center Latitude: 21.90°<br>
Center Longitude: 1.78° E<br>
Resolution: 57 meters/pixel<br>
Scale: de Graft crater is approximately 68 km (42 mi.) in diameter.<br>
Incidence Angle: 73.5°<br>
Emission Angle: 37.1°<br>
Phase Angle: 110.7°<br></p><p>Of Interest: The crater de Graft was named for 20th century Ghanaian playwright, poet, and novelist Joe de Graft following MESSENGER's second flyby of the innermost planet. The crater de Graft is a complex crater that hosts numerous bright hollows on its floor. This image is a mosaic of three NAC images taken as a sequence designed to target the crater.
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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.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
2012-02-10
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