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DescriptionPIA16549 - Mercury's north pole.jpg	English: Due to its nearly vertical spin axis, Mercury's north pole is never fully sunlit. If it were, it might look something like this image, which is an orthographic projection of a global mosaic. The dark area towards the centre of the image contains the north pole. Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) Scale: The diameter of Mercury is 4,880 km (3,030 miles). Map Projection: Orthographic
Date	3 December 2012, 04:22:04
Source	PIA16549: Mercury's Polar Region
Author	NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

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