By eye, Mercury is a relatively uniform grey with splotches of variation in brightness. But MESSENGER's sensitive cameras have filters on them which isolate different colors, and when put together and ...

Unmasking the secrets of Mercury, in color. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 04 / 150428165120.htm. NASA. "Unmasking the secrets of Mercury, in ...

Mercury In Color Date: January 26, 2008 Source: Johns Hopkins University Summary: One week ago, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft transmitted to Earth the first high-resolution image of Mercury by a ...

By eye, Mercury is a relatively uniform grey with splotches of variation in brightness. But MESSENGER’s sensitive cameras have filters on them which isolate different colors, and when put ...

Creating a false-color image in this way accentuates color differences on Mercury's surface that cannot be seen in the single-filter, black-and-white images released last week.

Mercury has a diameter of about 4,880 kilometers (3,030 miles), and the smallest feature visible in this color image is about 10 kilometers (6 miles) in size. First MESSENGER Spectrum of Mercury ...

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is the first to orbit Mercury, the small planet close to the sun. The very bright crater at the top of the picture is the Dominici crater. Scientists studying the data ...