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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 08 > In Mercury images, remarkable features in a crater reveal some of planet’s past

In Mercury images, remarkable features in a crater reveal some of planet’s past

The crater, as wide as the distance from Boston to Washington, had never been seen up close

By Kenneth Chang / The Bulletin
May 8, 2009

On its second flyby of the planet Mercury last October, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft beamed back 1,200 pictures, revealing 30 percent of the planet’s surface that had never been seen up close before.

Among the images was a view of the second-largest crater on Mercury, as wide....

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