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Now You See Me...

Both images show the same portion of Tir Planitia, a region of smooth plains near Mercury's equator. The image on the left is part of the MDIS global surface morphology basemap, whereas the image on the right is part of the MDIS high-incidence-angle base map.

Date acquired: June 01, 2012

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