Mercury (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

Mercury

Caption

Enhanced color image of Mercury. The bright, circular deposit in the upper center of the image is an enormous effusive volcanic deposit, situated within the largest impact crater on the planet, the Caloris basin.

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NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Institution of Washington

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