Mercury Dual Imaging System: EN0224175273M

Image Identification
Instrument IdMDIS-NAC
Observation Id742979
Orbit Number354
Sequence Name
Start Time2011-09-10 20:50:07.207078
Image Acquisition Parameters
Data Quality0000000000000000
Emission Angle30.180225
Incidence Angle64.70114
Latitude Center-52.77756
Local Time9.000831
Longitude Center315.67255
Percent Global Coverage0.042161
Phase Angle94.876495
Solar Longitude66.637276
Surface Area km^231517.172
Year-DOY2011_253
Image Boundaries
Lower Left Latitude-49.85232
Lower Left Longitude310.88324
Lower Right Latitude-52.529545
Lower Right Longitude310.88324
Upper Left Latitude-52.824444
Upper Left Longitude320.65985
Upper Right Latitude-55.645046
Upper Right Longitude314.727
Ancillary Parameters
Exposure Duration30
Exposure TypeAUTO
Filter Number99
Map Scale265.9608
Mission PhaseMERCURY ORBIT
North Azimuth Angle124.05876
Off Nadir Angle8.266782
Pixel Resolution160.12148
Slant Distance6328.6675
Solar Distance46320152
Spacecraft Solar Distance46319648
Subspacecraft Latitude-61.168884
Subspacecraft Longitude277.76605
Target Center Distance8524.95
Image Min/Max
Emission Angle Maximum33.33152
Emission Angle Minimum27.234997
Incidence Angle Maximum66.92834
Incidence Angle Minimum62.40675
Local Time Maximum9.333319
Local Time Minimum8.681544
Phase Angle Maximum95.629135
Phase Angle Minimum94.12689
Resolution Maximum162.61746
Resolution Minimum160.12268

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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.