English: Renoir crater on Mercury, photo taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft and released on 17 August 2012.
Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Latitude Rang: 15° S to 22° S
Longitude Range: 304° E to 312° E
Resolution: 213 meters/pixel
Scale: Renoir is approximately 215 km (134 mi.) in diameter
Projection: Equirectangular
Of Interest: Today's featured image highlights Renoir, one of Mercury's beautiful peak-ring basins. Renoir appears to be older than other basins like Raditladi and Rachmaninoff, with more degradation from subsequent cratering and modification by tectonic activity.
This mosaic was acquired as part of MDIS's high-incidence-angle base map. The high-incidence-angle base map is a major mapping activity in MESSENGER's extended mission and complements the surface morphology base map of MESSENGER's primary mission that was acquired under generally more moderate incidence angles. High incidence angles, achieved when the Sun is near the horizon, result in long shadows that accentuate the small-scale topography of geologic features. The high-incidence-angle base map is being acquired with an average resolution of 200 meters/pixel.
Français : Le cratère Renoir sur Mercure, photo pris par le vaisseau spatial MESSENGER et été publié le 17 août 2012.
На веб-сайте NASA размещено большое число изображений Советского/Российского космического агентства и других неамериканских космических агентств. Они вовсе не обязательно находятся в общественном достоянии.
Совместный проект SOHO (ESA & NASA) предполагает, что все материалы, созданные их зондом, защищены авторским правом и требуют разрешения для коммерческого необразовательного использования. [2]