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Bright peaks, dark shadows 20 February 2012, by Jason Major Amaral's "blue" peaks seen in a color-enhanced global image acquired Jan. 14, 2008. Its central peaks also attracted astronomers' MESSENGER image of Mercury's Amaral crater interest, as they were seen to possess a striking blue hue in color-enhanced images that likely indicates rocks with different composition from the surrounding surface. The 68-mile (109-km) -wide Amaral crater on Mercury reveals its brightly-tipped central peaks in Amaral's peaks resemble those of the slightly larger this image, acquired by NASA's MESSENGER crater Eminescu, which is now known to contain spacecraft on Feb. 4, 2012. Long shadows are recently-discovered features called hollows. It's not cast by the crater's peaks and rugged rim (north is yet known if Amaral also contains hollows, but it's to the left.) suspected that they may be present on the tips of the peaks. The image was acquired as a high-resolution targeted observation with MESSENGER's Narrow- The crater is named after Brazilian artist Tarsila do Angle Camera (NAC) on its Mercury Dual Imaging Amaral. She lived from 1886 to 1973 and is System (MDIS). considered to be one of the leading Latin American modernist painters. Amaral's bright peaks were first spotted during MESSENGER's first flyby of Mercury in Jan. 2008. With a smooth floor, visible ejecta and small Source: Universe Today secondary craters, Amaral appeared noticeably younger than the heavily cratered surface around it. 1 / 2 APA citation: Bright peaks, dark shadows (2012, February 20) retrieved 26 September 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2012-02-bright-peaks-dark-shadows.html This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. 2 / 2 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).

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