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MESSENGER Near Hokusai Crater Artist Concept
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An artist rendering of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown passing near the crater Hokusai and its extensive system of rays. Both the monochrome and enhanced color views of Mercury were obtained during MESSENGER second Mercury flyby.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMESSENGER Near Hokusai Crater Artist Concept. NASA/JPL, 2008-10-29. Public domain. ID: PIA18147.