Mercury Revealed in Stunning New Topographic Map | Video

This animation was created using data from NASA’s MESSENGER mission spacecraft, which was launched on Aug. 3, 2004, and began orbiting Mercury on March 17, 2011. It spent four years capturing images and information about the planet closest to the sun in unprecedented detail.

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Video Credits: NASA, U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona State University, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory