Mariner 10 Pictures of Mercury: First Results
Bruce C. Murray 1,
Michael J. S. Belton 2,
G. Edward Danielson 3,
Merton E. Davies 4,
Donald Gault 5,
Bruce Hapke 6,
Brian O'Leary 7,
Robert G. Strom 8,
Verner Suomi 9, and
Newell Trask 10
1 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91109
2 Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona 85726
3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California 91103
4 Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California 90401
5 Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035
6 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
7 Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
8 University of Arizona, Tucson 85726
9 University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706
10 U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia 22092
Mercury has a heavily cratered surface cotntaining basins up to at least 1300 kilometers diameter flooded with mare-like material. Many features are closely similar to those on the moon, but significant structural differences exist. Major chemical differentiation before termination of accretion is implied.
