First global elevation map of Mercury looks like a hiker’s dream

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Want to take a hike on Mercury?

On Friday — about one year after the Messenger spacecraft ended its mission by crashing into Mercury — scientists released the first complete global elevation map produced by the long-lived spacecraft.

The new map, which looks somewhat like...

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