MESSENGER Gallery October 2008 - Cratered Mercury
About 58 minutes before MESSENGER’s closest approach to Mercury on Oct. 6, 2008, the Narrow Angle Camera captured this close-up image of a portion of Mercury’s surface — imaged by spacecraft for the first time during this flyby. The features in the foreground, near the right side of the image, are close to the terminator, the line between the sunlit dayside and dark night side of the planet, so shadows are long and prominent.
Original post by interia@firma.interia.pl (INTERIA.PL)



