Date acquired: April 14, 2011
<p>Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 211242212
Image ID: 128691
Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
WAC filter: 7 (748 nanometers)
Center Latitude: 26.70°
Center Longitude: 299.3° E
Resolution: 365 meters/pixel
Scale: The diameter of Praxiteles is 198 km (123 miles)
Incidence Angle: 32.9°
Emission Angle: 26.0°
Phase Angle: 59.0°
</p><p>Of Interest: Near the peaks of Praxiteles' inner ring are irregularly shaped depressions surrounded by high-reflectance material with a distinct color signature. These pits are suspected sites of past volcanic activity.
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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
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