MDIS obtains images during flyby

MDIS obtains images during flyby
This image, showing the crater Hokusai, was obtained 6 October 2008 with the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) on board MESSENGER. Although large areas were already recorded in three oft he spacecraft's flybys, the images from orbit will cover the remaining spots on the map of Mercury.
Credit:

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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