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Rachmaninoff in 3D

Filed under pretty pictures, animation, amateur image processing, Mercury, MESSENGER

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Rachmaninoff in 3D Two views from the MESSENGER spacecraft of Mercury's Rachmaninoff double-ringed impact basin. The 3D fly-around is made possible by combining visual photography with elevation data obtained by the orbiter. Anyone can now browse these 3D views at the MESSENGER web site.

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Bill Dunford

Copyright holder: Bill Dunford

Original image data dated on or about September 15, 2011

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