Abstract
The Mariner 10 spacecraft made three flyby passes of Mercury in 1974 and 1975. It imaged a little less than half of the surface and discovered Mercury had an intrinsic magnetic field. This paper briefly describes the surface of Mercury as seen by Mariner 10 as a backdrop to the discoveries made since then by ground-based observations and the optimistic anticipation of new discoveries by MESSENGER and BepiColombo spacecraft that are scheduled for encounter in the next decade.
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Cremonese, G., Sprague, A., Warell, J., Thomas, N., Ksamfomality, L. (2008). The Surface of Mercury as Seen by Mariner 10. In: Balogh, A., Ksanfomality, L., von Steiger, R. (eds) Mercury. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 26. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77539-5_6
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