Mercurian Terminator (credits for the additional process. and color.: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Caption NASA:"The Terminator of Mercury, shown here in color, is the line between light and dark, or day and night. On Mercury, three days are equivalent to two years or, in other words, the Planet spins around its axis three times for every two orbits around the Sun. The first Mercury year of the MESSENGER mission ended on Monday, June 13, 2011".

Date acquired: June 07, 2011
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 215945273, 215943853, 215945277
Image ID: 349804, 349803, 349805
Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
WAC filter: 9 (1000 nanometers), 7 (750 nanometers), 6 (430 nanometers)
Center Latitude: 79,32° South
Center Longitude: 173,9° East
Resolution: 1715 meters/pixel
Scale: the approximate width of the image is 1840 Km