Mercury Dual Imaging System: EN0230667049M

Image Identification
Instrument IdMDIS-NAC
Observation Id1054264
Orbit Number506
Sequence Name
Start Time2011-11-25 00:06:23.375616
Image Acquisition Parameters
Data Quality0000000000000000
Emission Angle26.116982
Incidence Angle75.9016
Latitude Center-65.29936
Local Time15.623587
Longitude Center236.46388
Percent Global Coverage0.080335
Phase Angle69.70869
Solar Longitude349.26346
Surface Area km^260033.184
Year-DOY2011_329
Image Boundaries
Lower Left Latitude-65.50983
Lower Left Longitude237.09433
Lower Right Latitude-69.22606
Lower Right Longitude237.09433
Upper Left Latitude-61.249504
Upper Left Longitude236.2532
Upper Right Latitude-64.316185
Upper Right Longitude246.19444
Ancillary Parameters
Exposure Duration30
Exposure TypeAUTO
Filter Number99
Map Scale189.1015
Mission PhaseMERCURY ORBIT
North Azimuth Angle227.2961
Off Nadir Angle5.5315456
Pixel Resolution225.20198
Slant Distance8895.295
Solar Distance50434272
Spacecraft Solar Distance50430592
Subspacecraft Latitude-70.71249
Subspacecraft Longitude181.19432
Target Center Distance11136.846
Image Min/Max
Emission Angle Maximum30.776506
Emission Angle Minimum21.980219
Incidence Angle Maximum79.07789
Incidence Angle Minimum72.83444
Local Time Maximum16.272291
Local Time Minimum14.974476
Phase Angle Maximum70.46992
Phase Angle Minimum68.944275
Resolution Maximum228.57774
Resolution Minimum225.20314

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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.