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What is Mercury's true color?

What is Mercury's true color?
What is Mercury's true color? These four images were all created using data captured by the MESSENGER spacecraft in 2008. The top-left image was created using a black-and-white filter. The remaining three images were made using red, green, and blue filters capturing light in the range of wavelengths the human eye can see. Each one is processed with slightly different brightness and contrast settings. Mercury looks something like one of those images, depending on how you perceive color. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Arizona State University/Carnegie Institution of Washington