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Photos: Messenger returns to Mercury

October 7, 2008 11:52 AM PDT

Less than an hour before its closest approach, Messenger captured this first view of this area of Mercury's surface. Scientists have identified two long cliffs, or scarps, in this region.

Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Caption by Andy Smith

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