MESSENGER's global coverage of Mercury
Date: 21 February 2013
Satellite: MESSENGER
Depicts: Mercury
Copyright: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
A global view of Mercury by MESSENGER, similar to one released earlier, in October 2011, but with a more complete coverage. The globe on the left was created from the MDIS monochrome surface morphology base map campaign. The globe on the right was produced from the MDIS colour base map campaign.
Each map is composed of thousands of images, and the colour view was created by using three of the eight colour filters acquired (the 1000, 750, and 430 nm wavelengths are displayed in red, green, and blue, respectively).
On 8 March 2013, these global maps were also publicly released at full resolution by NASA's Planetary Data System.
Instrument: Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Centre latitude: 0°
Centre longitude: 75° E
Scale: Mercury's diameter is 4880 kilometres
Map projection: orthographic
For information regarding the use of MESSENGER images, see the MESSENGER image use policy.
