This image was snapped with the Narrow Angle Camera, one half of MESSENGER's Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), on January 10, 2008, when MESSENGER was a distance of just less than 2 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) from the planet Mercury. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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