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Description	English: This historic first orbital image of Mercury was acquired 37 years to the day after Mariner 10’s historic first flyby of the innermost planet. Labels have been added to indicate several craters that were named based on Mariner 10 images, as well as Debussy, Matabei, and Berkel, which were named based on MESSENGER flyby images. The surface contained in the white lines is terrain previously unseen by spacecraft, and the star indicates the location of the south pole.
Date	29 March 2011
Source	An Annotated Guide to the First Orbital Image (direct link)
Author	NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Permission (Reusing this file)	MESSENGER is a NASA mission and adheres to the space agency's guidelines for image use and reproduction.
Other versions	An Annotated Guide to the First Orbital Image (direct link)

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