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April 2011 Top Stories
»» MESSENGER Image: Bright Rays of Kuiper and Dark Material Near Hitomaro
[Tuesday, April 12, 2011] The rayed crater in the bottom left corner of this image is Kuiper. The crater Hitomaro, located to the east of Kuiper, has nearby dark material.
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»» MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Machaut Crater
[Wednesday, April 13, 2011] Machaut is the name of a crater, approximately 100 kilometer (60 mile) in diameter, first seen under high-sun conditions by Mariner 10 in the 1970s.
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»» MESSENGER Image: Dark Material on Mercury
[Thursday, April 14, 2011] The bright rays from Hokusai can be seen extending across this image, but also clearly visible near the center of this image is a small patch of material that is considerably darker than the surrounding terrain.
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»» MESSENGER Image: Mercury's Colorful Limb
[Friday, April 15, 2011] This color image, with the central wavelengths of 1000 nm, 750 nm, and 430 nm displayed in red, green, and blue, respectively, also highlights some of the subtle color variations observed on Mercury.
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»» MESSENGER Image: Unnamed Peaks on Mercury
[Friday, April 22, 2011] The mounds in this image are the central peak of an unnamed crater approximately 47 km in diameter, imaged at such high resolution (18 meters/pixel) that only the crater's interior can be seen.
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»» MESSENGER image of Mercury: Craters Kuiper, Calvino, and Rudaki
[Monday, April 25, 2011] First seen in Mariner 10 images, and again during MESSENGER's second flyby of Mercury, the bright-rayed crater Kuiper (62 km in diameter) provides an important stratigraphic marker in Mercury's history
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»» MESSENGER image of Mercury: Crater Bek
[Thursday, April 28, 2011] This oblique image of Bek (32 km in diameter) is a higher-resolution NAC complement to yesterday's WAC image.
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