New Science Findings From Messenger's Third Mercury Flyby

Presenter #1 - Sean Solomon , MESSENGER Principal Investigator, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.A MESSENGER color observation of Mercury obtained as the spacecraft approached the planet for its third and final flyby on 29 September 2009. The 1000, 700, and 430 nm filters were combined in red, green, and blue to create this color image (approximately 5 km/pixel resolution),