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Unnamed Mercurian Crater (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the research and the additional process.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)
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This dramatic image, where North is to the right, shows a Simple Impact Crater some 11 Km in diameter, located within the 290-Km-diameter Mendelssohn Basin. Its sharp Rim indicates that this Crater is a comparatively young Feature, though some parts of the Crater Walls have slumped (---> slowly fallen down) onto the Floor. The High Resolution of this image allows us to see quite a few distinctive textures along the Crater Walls.
Date acquired: July 21, 2012
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 251400686
Image ID: 2244179
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 70,28° North
Center Longitude: 105,38° East
Resolution: 19 meters/pixel
Scale: the field of view in this image is approx. 9,7 Km (such as about 2,3 miles) across
Solar Incidence Angle: 76,9° (menaing that the Sun was about 13,1° above the imaged Local Horizon at the time that the picture was taken)
Emission Angle: 11,0°
Sun-Mercury-MESSENGER (or "Phase") Angle: 87,9°
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Buon Lavoro! paolo