• Five rectangular images of the surface of Mercury next to each other, each showing the surface with different hues of purple, orange, yellow, and brown.
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    MESSENGER Explores Mercury - In Color
    During MESSENGER's second flyby of Mercury, the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired a strip of high-resolution images obtained with each of the Wide Angle Camera's (WAC) 11 different color filters. The graphic shown here displays the resulting enhanced-color mosaic.

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  • Five rectangular images of the surface of Mercury next to each other, each showing the surface with different hues of purple, orange, yellow, and brown.

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