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Mercury’s Blanket of Hollows (NASA, MESSENGER, 12/31/11) (by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center) This high-resolution NAC image shows a fresh, simple crater. Simple craters are numerous on Mercury’s surface, but this one is remarkable because of the many hollows visible in the crater’s ejecta blanket. Stunning examples of hollows have been seen on the floors of the larger craters of Raditladi, Eminescu, Tyagaraja, Sander, and Kertesz. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Mercury’s Blanket of Hollows (NASA, MESSENGER, 12/31/11) (by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center)

This high-resolution NAC image shows a fresh, simple crater. Simple craters are numerous on Mercury’s surface, but this one is remarkable because of the many hollows visible in the crater’s ejecta blanket. Stunning examples of hollows have been seen on the floors of the larger craters of Raditladi, Eminescu, Tyagaraja, Sander, and Kertesz.

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

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