Mercury Caloris detailed

Författare/Upphovsman:

NASA

Kreditera:

NSSDC's Photo Gallery (NASA):

• http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mercury.html
• http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/mercury/caloris.jpg

Kort länk:

https://sewiki.info/b/7356

Källa:

Wikimedia Commons

Upplösning:

421 x 642 Pixel (104836 Bytes)

Beskrivning:

This mosaic shows the Caloris Basin (located half-way in shadow on the terminator). Caloris is Latin for heat and the basin is named this because it is near the subsolar point (the point closest to the sun) when Mercury is at perihelion (the closest point in its orbit to the sun).

Licens:

Public domain

Licenskommentaren:

Copyright information from http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-faq.html - All of the images presented on NSSDC's Photo Gallery are in the public domain. As such, they may be used for any purpose. [...]