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English: This shows an area of unnamed features (as of March 2023) in Hokusai quadrangle, northeast of Hodgkins crater. The rays of Hodgkins are visible in lower left. Original caption follows:
Date acquired: July 11, 2014
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 47381178, 47381170, 47381174
Image ID: 6661702, 6661700, 6661701
Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
WAC filters: 9, 7, 6 (996, 748, 433 nanometers) in red, green, and blue
Center Latitude: 32.08°
Center Longitude: 21.71° E
Resolution: 243 meters/pixel
Scale: This scene is approximately 250 km (155 miles) across
Incidence Angle: 32.7°
Emission Angle: 0.5°
Phase Angle: 33.2°
Of Interest: This color view of Mercury's surface highlights what may be an old volcanic vent. Just to the right of center, within a brown-red patch, is an irregularly shaped 30-km depression, in this case the irregular shape is a bit like a butterfly. While most of these suspected volcanic vents are located within impact craters (like the one in Glinka), the butterfly-shaped vent is not clearly associated with any crater. It also appears that it may be older than other vents, resulting in more subdued details and colors.
This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-resolution 3-color imaging campaign. The map produced from this campaign complements the 8-color base map (at an average resolution of 1 km/pixel) acquired during MESSENGER's primary mission by imaging Mercury's surface in a subset of the color filters at the highest resolution possible. The three narrow-band color filters are centered at wavelengths of 430 nm, 750 nm, and 1000 nm, and image resolutions generally range from 100 to 400 meters/pixel in the northern hemisphere.
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Source THE BUTTERFLY VENT
Author NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

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The butterfly vent

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ray system

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24 September 2014

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