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Eminent Eminescu

This image, taken with the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), gives us a stunning close-up view of the floor of Eminescu crater. The high-reflectance patches surrounding the central peaks and scattered across the crater floor are hollows, an unexpected landform found in MESSENGER high-resolution images. Hollows are shallow, irregular, bright depressions whose formation may involve loss of volatile material.

Date acquired: July 25, 2012

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