{"id":205084,"date":"2013-06-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_2531.html"},"modified":"2013-06-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T04:00:00","slug":"a-view-of-mercury-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=205084","title":{"rendered":"A View of Mercury From Afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image of Mercury, acquired by the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) aboard NASA&#8217;s MESSENGER mission on April 23, 2013, allows us to take a step back to view the planet. Prior to the MESSENGER mission, Mercury&#8217;s surface was often compared to the surface of Earth&#8217;s moon, when in fact, Mercury and the moon are very different. This image in particular highlights many basins near Mercury&#8217;s terminator, including Bach crater. Many craters with central peaks and the nearby bright rays of Han Kan crater are also evident. Once per week, MDIS captures images of Mercury&#8217;s limb, with an emphasis on imaging the southern hemisphere limb. These limb images provide information about Mercury&#8217;s shape and complement measurements of topography made by the Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) of Mercury&#8217;s northern hemisphere.<em>Image Credit: NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Carnegie Institution of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image of Mercury, acquired by the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) aboard NASA&#8217;s MESSENGER mission on April 23, 2013, allows us to take a step back to view the planet. Prior to the MESSENGER mission, Mercury&#8217;s surface was often compared to the surface of Earth&#8217;s moon, when in fact, Mercury and the moon are very different. This image in particular highlights many basins near Mercury&#8217;s terminator, including Bach crater. Many craters with central peaks and the nearby bright rays of Han Kan crater are also evident. Once per week, MDIS captures images of Mercury&#8217;s limb, with an emphasis on imaging the southern hemisphere limb. These limb images provide information about Mercury&#8217;s shape and complement measurements of topography made by the Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) of Mercury&#8217;s northern hemisphere.<em>Image Credit: NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Carnegie Institution of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}