Date acquired: July 31, 2011
<p>Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 220635824
Image ID: 575089
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: -28.30°
Center Longitude: 146.9° E
Resolution: 139 meters/pixel
Scale: Pahinui crater is 54 km (34 mi.) in diameter
Incidence Angle: 77.3°
Emission Angle: 22.5°
Phase Angle: 99.9°
</p><p>Of Interest: One of nine newly named craters, Pahinui crater has intriguing pits surrounding its central peak. Pahinui crater is named for the Hawaiian musician Gabby Pahinui, a key figure in the 1970s Hawaiian Renaissance and master of the slack-key guitar, a style that originated in Hawaii.
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This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-resolution surface morphology base map. The surface morphology base map covers more than 99% of Mercury's surface with an average resolution of 200 meters/pixel. Images acquired for the surface morphology base map typically are obtained at off-vertical Sun angles (i.e., high incidence angles) and have visible shadows so as to reveal clearly the topographic form of geologic features.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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