A imagem acima mostra uma compilação de algumas das mais impressionantes imagens feitas durante a missão da sonda MESSENGER em Mercúrio até hoje. Essa mesma imagem, só que do tamanho de um mural está presente no MESSENGER Science Operations Center no Laboratório de Física Aplicada da Universidade Johns Hopkins.
Primeira Linha (Da esquerda para a direita):
Two Days Until MESSENGER’s Encounter with Mercury
Mercury Shows Its True Colors
Caloris Basin – in Color!
Mercury as Never Seen Before
“A” Spectacular Rayed Crater
A Big and Brilliant Ray System
Night Falls on Mercury
MESSENGER Sees the Previously Unseen!
The Sun Sets on Rembrandt
Beagle Rupes
Smooth Plains?
Revisiting Rachmaninoff
Segunda Linha (Da esquerda para a direita):
Hokusai’s Molten Past
A Sideways Glance
The Interior of Kuiper
Color Close-Up of Kuiper
Sneak Peek at a Peak
Hollows on the Hills
Complex Craters
Apollodorus and the Pantheon
Blue Degas
Hello Again, Hodgkins!
The Palette of Praxiteles
The Knight in the Panther’s Skin
Terceira Linha (Da esquerda para a direita):
Ms. Pacman Arrives on Mercury
Perspective View of Mercury’s Topography
A Lovely View
First Image of MESSENGER’s Extended Mission!
Inside Eminescu
Illumination Map of Mercury’s South Pole
Oh Amaral!
Ride Along with the NAC
Pit(ch) Black
Uncovering a Dark Past
As Goethe as It Gets
Behold Bartok
Quarta Linha (Da esquerda para a direita):
Say Aah!
Hollows, Hollows, Hollows
Mercury’s Kidney
A Wider View
Close-up Shot of To Ngoc Van
The Hills of Caloris
Islands in the Stream
Exploring the Rays of Debussy
The Crater Who Must Not be Named
Have a Gander at Sander
Rockin’ Rachmaninoff
Is this Crater Circular?
Fonte:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=898
