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Caloris Basin

A 1,500-kilometer impact scar flooded by lava — Mercury's biggest event, in stereo.

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Where every bump comes fromPROCESSED

MESSENGER MDIS stereo DEM, 665 m/px (shown at 935 m/px) · product Mercury_Messenger_USGS_DEM_Global_665m_v2 · NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution · USGS Astrogeology. Scene 1651 × 1916 km, elevation -2,229 m to 3,792 m against the 2,439.4 km Mercury reference sphere. Surface color: MESSENGER MDIS color mosaic v3 (665 m/px), NASA/JHUAPL/CIW. The scene crosses 180°E; both sources are re-gridded onto a common frame centered on the basin before cropping.

No generative models anywhere on this page — the pipeline crops, resamples down, and normalizes; it never invents a bump the instrument didn’t measure.

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