File:PIA02442 Moon's North Pole.jpg
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English: Mariner 10 was launched on November 3, 1973, 12:45 am PST, from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas/Centaur rocket (a reconditioned Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - ICBM). Within 12 hours of launch the twin cameras were turned on and several hundred pictures of both the Earth and the Moon were acquired over the following days.
In this unusual view eastern Mare Frigor is near the center of the disc, while Mare Crisiumis the large circular feature near the lower right limb. The heavily cratered region shown in the top of the mosaic shows portions of the Moon not seen from the Earth. This mosaic is composed of 22 frames acquired in orange (15), clear (4), UV (2), and UV-polarized (1) wavelengths by the Mariner 10 Spacecraft. |
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| Source | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02442 (image link) |
| Author | NASA/JPL/Northwestern University |
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| current | 09:05, 22 April 2015 | | 900 × 900 (99 KB) | wikimediacommons>Jcpag2012 | User created page with UploadWizard |
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