Showing posts with label Enhanced Colours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enhanced Colours. Show all posts

Monday, February 25, 2013

Mercury: Enhanced Colours of the Innermost Planet

This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the colour base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission. 

These colours are not what Mercury would look like to the human eye, but rather the colours enhance the chemical, mineralogical, and physical differences between the rocks that make up Mercury's surface.

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington