[meteorite-list] MESSENGER Reveals Mercury in New Detail

[Darren Garrison]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:17:49 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>As MESSENGER approached Mercury on Jan. 14, the spacecraft's 
>Narrow-Angle Camera on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) 
>instrument captured a view of the planet's rugged, cratered landscape 
>illuminated obliquely by the Sun. See the image at
>
>http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=118

Here's a quick attempt at removing some of the distortion in the raw photo:

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/mercury_fixed.jpg