The latest data from the Cassini - Huygens mission, including
a mosaic image of the surface, show an odd bright red spot, an icy volcano, and a dark feature that may be a lake.
Not exact matches
The best global view
of the heavily cratered
surface of Mercury — a
mosaic of more than 140
images snapped by Mariner 10 in March 1974 — reveals expansive plains that may have been created by volcanic activity.
The figure shows an
image of Mercury's
surface (left; obtained using publicly available
mosaic of Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft found at http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/) and a color - coded view
of the global crater areal density (right), obtained by measuring craters greater than 25 km.
This
image is one
of those
mosaic frames and was acquired on January 14, 2008, 18:10 UTC, when the spacecraft was about 18,000 kilometers (11,000 miles) from the
surface of Mercury, about 55 minutes before MESSENGER's closest approach to the planet.
From his
mosaic - like, pigment - soaked, cotton - ball paintings
of the 1970s (exhibited last year at Gavin Brown's enterprise) to the «box paintings,» Zucker has continually found ways to blend
image into
surface.