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MESSENGER Views Rachmaninoff Basin (Artist’s Concept)

A depiction of NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is shown viewing the Rachmaninoff basin.
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Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Description

A depiction of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown viewing the Rachmaninoff basin. Both the monochrome and enhanced color views of Mercury were obtained during MESSENGER's third Mercury flyby.

For information regarding the use of images, see the MESSENGER image use policy.