NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Southern Belle

This image, captured with the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), displays a beautiful unnamed crater in Mercury's southern hemisphere. The crater's well-preserved terraced walls and textured ejecta blanket indicate that the crater is relatively young. On the crater's southern floor and wall, we can see high-reflectance patches, known as hollows.

Date acquired: August 01, 2012

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