Not far from the sun lies a tiny planet with a big image problem. A fleeting presence often hidden by the sun’s glare, Mercury is the neglected child of the solar system.
A cliff more than 300 kilometers long extends diagonally from upper left to lower right in this colorized image of Mercury taken by Mariner 10 in 1974.
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