The first image of Mercury ever taken from an orbiting craft shows the large rayed crater Debussy (upper portion of photo) and a smaller crater called Matabei. The lower part of the image shows part of Mercury’s south polar region not previously seen by any craft.
Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
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