This image shows a colorful view of brontë (the large crater in the top right corner) and degas (the blue-hued crater atop brontë). These craters are located in sobkou planitia, a plains region formed through past volcanic activity. This image was acquired as a high-resolution targeted observation. Targeted observations are images of a small area on mercury's surface at resolutions much higher than the 250-meter/pixel (820 feet/pixel) morphology base map or the 1-kilometer/pixel (0. 6 miles/pixel) color base map. It is not possible to cover all of mercury's surface at this high resolution during messenger's one-year mission, but several areas of high scientific interest are generally imaged in this mode each week.
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