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File:Mercury in colour c1000 700 430.png

Summary

Description First high-resolution image of Mercury transmitted by the MESSENGER spacecraft (in false color, 11 narrow-band colour filters)
Date released 2008 Jan 22
Source http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=132
Author NASA/ Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/ Carnegie Institution of Washington

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