MESSENGER Flyby to Capture Additional Images of Mercury
October 2, 2009
…from Science@NASA…
“As the spacecraft approaches Mercury, cameras will photograph previously unseen terrain, and as the spacecraft departs it will take high-resolution images of the southern hemisphere. Scientists expect the spacecraft’s imaging system to take more than 1,500 pictures. So far, more than 90 percent of the planet’s surface has been photographed. These new pictures will fill in some of the gaps and provide high-resolution imagery of targets of interest.”
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