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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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Title:
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Mercury: Photomosaic of the Shakespeare Quadrangle of Mercury (Southern Half) H-3
Title
Mercury: Photomosaic of the Shakespeare Quadrangle of Mercury (Southern Half) H-3
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Original Caption Released with Image:
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This computer generated photomosaic from Mariner 10 is of the southern half of Mercury's Shakespeare Quadrangle, named for the ancient Shakespeare crater located on the upper edge to the left of center. This portion of the quadrangle covers the geographic region from 20 to 45 degrees north latitude and from 90 to 180 degrees longitude. The photomosaic was produced using computer techniques and software developed in the Image Processing Laboratory of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The pictures have been high-pass filtered and contrast enhanced to accentuate surface detail, and geometrically transformed into a Lambert conformal projection.
Well defined bright streaks or ray systems radiating away from craters constitute another distinctive feature of the Mercurian surface, remarkably similar to the Moon. The rays cut across and are superimposed on all other surface features, indicating that the source craters are the youngest topographic features on the surface of Mercury.
The above material was taken from the following publication... Davies, M. E., S. E. Dwornik, D. E. Gault, and R. G. Strom, Atlas of Mercury,NASA SP-423 (1978).
The Mariner 10 mission was managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science.
Original_Caption_Rel eased_with_Image
This computer generated photomosaic from Mariner 10 is of the southern half of Mercury's Shakespeare Quadrangle, named for the ancient Shakespeare crater located on the upper edge to the left of center. This portion of the quadrangle covers the geographic region from 20 to 45 degrees north latitude and from 90 to 180 degrees longitude. The photomosaic was produced using computer techniques and software developed in the Image Processing Laboratory of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The pictures have been high-pass filtered and contrast enhanced to accentuate surface detail, and geometrically transformed into a Lambert conformal projection.
Well defined bright streaks or ray systems radiating away from craters constitute another distinctive feature of the Mercurian surface, remarkably similar to the Moon. The rays cut across and are superimposed on all other surface features, indicating that the source craters are the youngest topographic features on the surface of Mercury.
The above material was taken from the following publication... Davies, M. E., S. E. Dwornik, D. E. Gault, and R. G. Strom, Atlas of Mercury,NASA SP-423 (1978).
The Mariner 10 mission was managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science.
Original Caption Released with Image
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Addition Date:
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1996-09-23
Addition_Date
1996-09-23
Addition Date
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Produced By:
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JPL
Produced_By
JPL
Produced By
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Mission:
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Mariner Venus Mercury (MVM)
Mission
Mariner Venus Mercury (MVM)
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Spacecraft:
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Mariner 10
Spacecraft
Mariner 10
Spacecraft
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Target Name:
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Mercury
Target_Name
Mercury
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Is a satellite of:
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Sol (our sun)
Is_a_satellite_of
Sol (our sun)
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Instrument:
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Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
Instrument
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
Instrument
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Product Size:
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9999 samples x 4000 lines
Product_Size
9999 samples x 4000 lines
Product Size
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facet_what:
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Mercury
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Mercury
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Sun
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Sun
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Mariner
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Mariner
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Mariner Venus Mercury
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Mariner Venus Mercury
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MVM
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MVM
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Venus
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Venus
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Mariner 10
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Mariner 10
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Atlas
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Atlas
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Crater
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Crater
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Moon
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Moon
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Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS)
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Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS)
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Mercury
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Mercury
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Venus
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Venus
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where
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facet_where:
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where
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Image #:
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PIA00067
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UID:
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA00067
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA00067
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orignial url
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