Mercury Dual Imaging System: EN0223921244M

Image Identification
Instrument IdMDIS-NAC
Observation Id730911
Orbit Number348
Sequence Name
Start Time2011-09-07 22:16:18.18192
Image Acquisition Parameters
Data Quality0000000000000000
Emission Angle15.957653
Incidence Angle66.49937
Latitude Center-55.730667
Local Time9.009789
Longitude Center315.27237
Percent Global Coverage0.03615
Phase Angle82.450066
Solar Longitude48.051365
Surface Area km^227025.54
Year-DOY2011_250
Image Boundaries
Lower Left Latitude-53.008495
Lower Left Longitude310.52374
Lower Right Latitude-55.418175
Lower Right Longitude310.52374
Upper Left Latitude-55.86941
Upper Left Longitude320.17194
Upper Right Latitude-58.423298
Upper Right Longitude314.6883
Ancillary Parameters
Exposure Duration30
Exposure TypeAUTO
Filter Number99
Map Scale271.45682
Mission PhaseMERCURY ORBIT
North Azimuth Angle128.07584
Off Nadir Angle4.4981694
Pixel Resolution156.87958
Slant Distance6178.837
Solar Distance46007684
Spacecraft Solar Distance46005900
Subspacecraft Latitude-61.49011
Subspacecraft Longitude296.11337
Target Center Distance8550.288
Image Min/Max
Emission Angle Maximum18.91376
Emission Angle Minimum13.253984
Incidence Angle Maximum68.470245
Incidence Angle Minimum64.494774
Local Time Maximum9.336426
Local Time Minimum8.693214
Phase Angle Maximum83.20334
Phase Angle Minimum81.70191
Resolution Maximum158.14043
Resolution Minimum156.87999

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About Mercury Dual Imaging System

MESSENGER carries seven scientific instruments and a radio science experiment to accomplish an ambitious objective: return the first data from Mercury orbit. The miniaturized payload - designed to work in the extreme environment near the Sun - will image all of Mercury for the first time, as well as gather data on the composition and structure of Mercury's crust, its geologic history, the nature of its active magnetosphere and thin atmosphere, and the makeup of its core and the materials near its poles.