File:North pole of Mercury -- NASA.jpg

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North Pole of planet Mercury. 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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Date

November 2012

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Author

NASA

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	09:34, 9 February 2013	600 × 330 (59 KB)	Soerfm	Contrast
	02:46, 30 November 2012	600 × 330 (44 KB)	Geo Swan	{{Information \|Description=North Pole of {{w\|planet Mercury}}. This image is a composite. \|Source=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/science/space/mercury-home-to-ice-messenger-spacecraft-findings-suggest.html \|Date=2012-11 \|Author=NASA \|Permission={{...

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