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English: Presented at: A press conference held at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, USA. In total, MESSENGER team members are presenting 57 papers at this conference.
Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) Of Interest: The highest-resolution radar image of Mercury's south polar region made from the Arecibo Observatory (Harmon et al., Icarus, 211, 37-50, 2011) is shown in white on MESSENGER orbital images colorized by the faction of time the surface is illuminated. Areas in permanent shadow are black on the illumination map. Radar-bright features in the Arecibo image all collocate with areas mapped as in permanent shadow, consistent with the proposal that radar-bright materials contain water ice. This image is shown in a polar stereographic projection with every 5° of latitude and 30° of longitude indicated and with 0° longitude at the top. The large crater near Mercury's south pole, Chao Meng-Fu, has a diameter of 180 km. |
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| Source | PERMANENT SHADOWS AT MERCURY'S SOUTH POLE |
| Author | NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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