File:North pole of Mercury -- NASA.jpg
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Summary
North Pole of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/planet_Mercury" class="extiw" title="w:planet Mercury">planet Mercury</a>. This image is a composite.
- Original caption: “NASA
The dark region at the center of this image, pieced together from photographs taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft, includes the north pole of Mercury. Because Mercury's spin axis is almost exactly vertical, sunlight never reaches the bottoms of craters near the poles, and water ice can persist in the ultra cold temperatures there.
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| current | 05:22, 5 January 2017 | | 600 × 330 (59 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>North Pole of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/planet_Mercury" class="extiw" title="w:planet Mercury">planet Mercury</a>. This image is a composite. </p> <ul><li> <b>Original caption</b>: “<i><span lang="" class="description"><b>NASA</b><p>The dark region at the center of this image, pieced together from photographs taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft, includes the north pole of Mercury. Because Mercury's spin axis is almost exactly vertical, sunlight never reaches the bottoms of craters near the poles, and water ice can persist in the ultra cold temperatures there. </p></span></i>”</li></ul> |
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