PIA18147: MESSENGER Near Hokusai Crater (Artist's Concept)
An artist's rendering of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown passing near the crater Hokusai and its extensive system of rays. Both the monochrome and enhanced color views of Mercury were obtained during MESSENGER's second Mercury flyby.
 Target Name:  Mercury
 Mission:  MESSENGER 
 Spacecraft:  MESSENGER
 Product Size:  3000 x 2009 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Johns Hopkins University/APL 
 Other  
Information: 		 More artist's impressions from MESSENGER 
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A depiction of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown passing near the crater Hokusai and its extensive system of rays. Both the monochrome and enhanced color views of Mercury were obtained during MESSENGER's second Mercury flyby.

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Image Credit:
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Image Addition Date:
2008-10-29