Mercury Unveiled

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Jan 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997psrd.repte...6t&link_type=abstract

Planetary Science Research Discoveries

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Mercury, Planet, Volcanism, Mariner 10 Satellite, Space Science, Geology

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Mercury, the second smallest planet and the closest one to the Sun, may appear to some as a drab, colorless, heavily-cratered world. Not so. New analysis of data returned by the Mariner 10 mission in 1974 and 1975 reveals a surface with lava flows and deposits from explosive volcanic eruptions, variations in composition across its surface and into its crust, and a different chemical composition from the other inner planets. These discoveries were made by Mark Robinson at the United States Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona (he is now at Northwestern University) and Paul Lucey of the University of Hawaii. Using improvements in computer and image-processing technologies, and a better understanding of how light reflects off planetary surfaces than was available in the mid-1970s, Robinson and Lucey manipulated the original data and produced a color image of Mercury that depicts compositional differences across its stark surface

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