2000 1000 1000 500 500 0 2000 KILOMETERS 0 20 40 57 0 20 57 MEARCAIR PLANITIA MEARCAIR PLANITIA APĀRANGI PLANITIA APĀRANGI PLANITIA CATUILLA PLANUM CATUILLA PLANUM Heaney Heaney PAPSUKKAL PLANITIA PAPSUKKAL PLANITIA OTAARED PLANITIA OTAARED PLANITIA SIHTU PLANITIA SIHTU PLANITIA LUGUS PLANITIA LUGUS PLANITIA + Highest Point (4,676 m) Highest Point (4,676 m) C A L O R I S P L A N I T I A C A L O R I S P L A N I T I A STILBON PLANITIA STILBON PLANITIA Faulkner Grainger Munkácsy Dürer Lange Enheduanna Akutagawa Bagryana Jobim Kerouac Kā lid ās ā Matisse Milton Schubert Sholem Aleichem Smetana Kofi Larrocha Holst Izquierdo Hauptmann Equiano Abu Nuwas Andal Kuan Han-Ch'ing Hemingway Eitoku Africanus Horton Al- Ha m adhani Kurosawa Rublev R ū daki Barma Bartók Bello Boethius Sophocles Sor Juana Stravinsky Brunelleschi Bram ante Hawthorne Strindberg Giotto Ghiberti Gluck Goya Harunobu Handel Derain Imhotep Holbein Hiroshige Hitomaro Ibsen Coleridge Gibran Kenk ō Byron Carducci Chaikovskij Chekhov Chu Ta Proust Ch ŏng Ch' ŏl Darío Delacroix Derzhavin Shevchenko Lermontov Li Po Liang K'ai Mahler Machaut Lysippus Mistral Mark Twain Melville Molière Mickiewicz Polygnotus Mofolo Murasaki Mussorgskij Praxiteles Neumann Petrarch Phidias Pigalle Po Ya Ts'ao Chan Riemenschneider Sayat-Nova Scarlatti Shelley Sinan Sullivan Sō tatsu S ū r D ā s Takayoshi Atget Th ā kur Titian Ts'ai Wen-C hi Ustad Isa Unkei Vincente Velázquez Wang Meng Zeami Eminescu Neruda Am aral Dali Picasso Kipling Steichen Aksakov Nabokov Stevenson Joplin Catullus Sousa Caravaggio Raphael Kunisada Hafiz Sanai An e i ri n B e e t h o ve n Haydn R e m b r a n d t Michelangelo Monet Renoir Vivaldi Vālmiki Copland Rachmaninoff Rustaveli H om er Hugo Rodin Mozart Shakespeare Wren Tolstoj Van Eyck Vy ā sa Raditladi Sveinsdóttir Ellington Vieira da Silva Surikov A n t o n i a d i Dor s um A l v i n Ru p e s A s t ro l a b e R u p e s C alyps o R u p e s E nde av o ur R u pes H a y s t a c k C a t e n a H e e m s k e r c k Ru p e s Z ee ha en R up es P a n t h e o n F o s s a e Blossom Rupes E nterpri s e R u p e s r N a u t i lu s R u p e s P al m er Ru pes Un ity Ru p e s V i c t o r i a R u p es ODIN PLANITIA TIR PLANITIA BUDH PLANITIA S O B K O U P L A N I T I A Schiaparelli Dorsum D u y f k e n R u p e s Mi r n i R u p e s Za r y a R u p e s V o s t o k R u p e s S a n t a M a r í a R u p e s D i s c o v e r y R u p e s P a r a m o u r R u p e s B e l g i c a R u p e s B e a g l e R u p e s Dostoevskij C A L O R I S M O N T E S Hun Kal B O R E A L I S P L A N I T I A B O R E A L I S P L A N I T I A TURMS PLANITIA TURMS PLANITIA Dowland Mansur Kuiper Debussy Poe Sander Munch Kertész 57° 50° 30° 0° –30° –50° –57° 57° 50° 30° 0° –30° –50° –57° 180°W 180°E 30°W 330°E 60°W 300°E 90°W 270°E 120°W 240°E 150°W 210°E 180°W 180°E 0°W 360°E 210°W 150°E 240°W 120°E 270°W 90°E 300°W 60°E 330°W 30°E 180°E 180°W 330°E 30°W 300°E 60°W 270°E 90°W 240°E 120°W 210°E 150°W 180°E 180°W 360°E 0°W 120°E 240°W 90°E 270°W 150°E 210°W 60°E 300°W 30°E 330°W North South East West 180°W 180°E 0°E 360°W –55° –55° –60° –60° –70° –70° –80° –80° 90°W 270°E 270°W 90°E 240°W 120°E 210°W 150°E 150°W 210°E 120°W 240°E 300°E 60°W 330°E 30°W 30°E 360°W 60°E 300°W Chao Meng-Fu Magritte Bernini Boccaccio Rabelais Alencar Hesiod Keats Coleridge Khansa Chopin Ma Chih-Yuan Mendes Pinto Sei Vincente Wagner Alver Roerich Disney Pushkin B a c h Cervantes A d ve n t u r e R u p es Pourquoi-Pas Rupes R e s o l u t i o n R u p e s H e r o R u p e s E l t a n i n R u p e s T e r r o r R u p e s U T A R I D I P L A N I T I A U T A R I D I P L A N I T I A Fram Rupes SOUTH POLAR REGION 1000 KILOMETERS 500 0 500 1000 -90 -70 -55 -90 -70 -55 SCALE 1:12,157,366 (1 mm = 12.157366 km) AT 56˚ LATITUDE POLAR STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTION West longitude (planetographic) coordinate system shown in black. East longitude (planetocentric) coordinate system shown in red. Rubens Kofi Henri Ahmad Baba Botticelli Brahms Abedin Monteverdi Turgenev Van Dijck Verdi Oskison Hokusai Duccio Lismer Stieglitz Prokofiev G o e t h e Mendelssohn Caral Vallis Paestum Vallis A ng k or V a l l i s C a h o k i a V a l l i s SUISEI PLANITIA L a D a u p h i n e R u p e s C a r n e g i e R u p e s T i m g a d V a l l i s STILBON PLANITIA STILBON PLANITIA P L A N I T I A B O R E A L I S Lowest Point (-5,631 m) Lowest Point (-5,631 m) + 55° 55° 60° 60° 70° 70° 80° 80° 180°E 180°W 0°W 360°E 240°E 120°W 210°E 150°W 150°E 210°W 120°E 240°W 270°W 90°E 300°W 60°E 330°W 30°E 30°W 330°E 60°W 300°E 90°W 270°E 1000 KILOMETERS 500 0 500 1000 90 70 55 90 70 55 NORTH POLAR REGION SCALE 1:12,157,366 (1 mm = 12.157366 km) AT 56˚ LATITUDE POLAR STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTION West longitude (planetographic) coordinate system shown in black. East longitude (planetocentric) coordinate system shown in red. SPACECRAFT AND INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION This image mosaic is based on observations acquired by the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS; Hawkins and others, 2009), an instrument on the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft (Solomon and others, 2007). MDIS consists of two cameras, a wide angle camera (WAC) and a narrow angle camera (NAC). The WAC is a 4-element refractive telescope having a focal length of 78 mm and a collecting area of 48 mm 2 . A 12-position filter wheel provides color imaging over the spectral range of the charge-coupled device (CCD) detector. Eleven spectral filters spanning the range from 395 nanometers (nm) to 1,040 nm are defined to cover wavelengths diagnostic of different surface materials. The twelfth position is a broad-band filter for optical navigation. The filters are arranged on the filter wheel in such a way as to provide complementary passbands (for example, 3- and 4-color imaging) in adjacent positions (Denevi and others, 2016). The NAC is an off-axis reflective telescope with a 550-mm focal length and a collecting area of 462 mm 2 . The NAC has an identical CCD detector with a single medium-band filter (100 nm wide), centered at 750 nm to match to the corresponding WAC filter 7 (or G filter) for monochrome imaging (Hash and others, 2015). MAP DESCRIPTION This global mosaic includes the Basemap Data Records (BDR) compiled using NAC and WAC 750-nm images that best fit the intended illumination geometry of low emission angle and incidence angle near 74°. Prior to mosaicking, the images were photometrically normalized to a solar incidence angle (i) = 30°, emission angle (e) = 0°, and phase angle (g) = 30° at a spatial sampling of 256 pixels per degree (~166 meter per pixel at the equator). The 30° incidence angle was found to minimize shadows while including topographic shading. This edition, version 2, was released on May 12, 2017, as 15 tiles to the Planetary Data System (PDS) MESSENGER archive (Hash, 2013). PROJECTION The Mercator projection is used between latitudes ±57°, with a central meridian at 0° longitude and latitude equal to the nominal scale at 0°. The polar stereographic projection is used for the regions north of the +55° parallel and south of the –55° parallel, with a central meridian set for both at 0° and a latitude of true scale at +90° and –90°, respectively. The adopted spherical radius used to define the map scale is 2439.4 km (Perry and others, 2015). COORDINATE SYSTEM The orientation model for Mercury has been updated using improved pole position and short-period longitude libration information from Margot (2009). The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group, since its original report (Davies and others, 1980), recommends the use of the crater Hun Kal (which means “twenty” in the Mayan language) to define the 20° west longitude meridian. Therefore, the value of the prime meridian (W0) used previously (W0 = 329.548°; Robinson and others, 1999) but corrected for libration terms at J2000.0 results in a new recommended value of W0 = 329.5988° (Stark, 2016). The pole position is given by an updated model by Stark, with the J2000.0 right ascension of the pole as 281.0103–0.0328T and the declination as 61.4155–0.0049T, where T is the number of Julian centuries from J2000.0 (Stark, 2017). Using this prime meridian, the mosaic was constructed from overlapping NAC and WAC 750-nm images and controlled using NASA’s updated Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) SPICE (Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, C-matrix, Events; Acton, 1996) kernels (known as c-smithed kernels) and a global digital elevation model (DEM), both derived using a least-squares bundle adjustment of common features. Images were orthorectified using this derived DEM. Empirically, misregistration errors between images decreased generally to the pixel scale of the map (~0.2 km) in most locations. Derivation of c-smithed kernels and the DEM for end-of-mission data products was described by Becker and others (2016). Longitudes are shown in both positive West (shown in black) and East (shown in red). Positive West is the default longitude system recommended by the IAU (Archinal and others, 2011), but positive East has been used for all MESSENGER map products. MAPPING TECHNIQUES Included in this global mosaic are BDRs created with images from any campaign that best fit the intended illumination geometry. A campaign refers to a planned period of image acquisition during a mission. To prepare the images for publication, the original PDS tiles were map projected into Mercator and Polar Stereographic projections with a resolution of ~166 meter per pixel. The original reflectance values (I/F) were stretched from a minimum of 0.000867 to a maximum of 0.220197 to 8 bits (0 to 255) using a linear stretch. Finally, the images were then scaled to 1:20,000,000 for the Mercator part and 1:12,157,366 for the two polar stereographic parts with a resolution of 300 pixels per inch. The two projections have a common scale at ±56° latitude. NOMENCLATURE Feature names on this sheet have been approved by the IAU. All features greater than 100 km in diameter or length were included unless they were not visible at the printed map scale. Some selected well-known features less than 100 km in diameter or length were also included. For a complete list of the IAU-approved nomenclature for Mercury, see the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature at https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The collection of the data used in the production of this map was made possible by NASA and the MESSENGER team. The production of the map itself and publication costs were funded by a NASA and USGS Interagency Agreement. REFERENCES CITED Acton, C.H., 1996, Ancillary Data Services of NASA’s Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility: Planetary and Space Science, v. 44, no. 1, p. 65–70, https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/. 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Hash, C., Espiritu, R., Malaret, E., Prockter, L., Murchie, S., Mick, A., and Ward, J., 2015, MESSENGER Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) Experiment Data Record (EDR) Software Interface Specification (SIS): The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Labratory, MDIS EDR SIS V2T, https://pdsimage2.wr.usgs.gov/archive/mess- e_v_h-mdis-2-edr-rawdata-v1.0/MSGRMDS_1001/DOCUMENT/MDISEDRSIS.PDF. Hawkins, S.E., III, Murchie, S.L., Becker, K.J., Selby, C.M., Turner, F.S., Nobel, M.W., Chabot, N.L., Choo, T.H., Darlington, E.H., Denevi, B.W., Domingue, D.L., Ernst, C.M., Holsclaw, G.M., Laslo, N.R., McClintock, W.E., Prockter, L.M., Robinson, M.S., Solomon, S.C., and Sterner, R.E., II, 2009, In-flight performance of MESSENGER’s Mercury Dual Imaging System, in Hoover, B., Levin, G.V., Rozanov, A.Y., and Rether- ford, K.D., eds., Instruments and methods for Astrobiology and Planetary Missions XII: Bellingham, Wash., SPIE, Paper 74410Z, 12 p. 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Stark, A., 2015, The prime meridian of the planet Mercury: DLR and Technische Universität Berlin, ftp://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/pds/data/mess-e_v_h-spice-6-v1.0/messsp_1000/documen t/stark_prime_meridian.pdf. Stark, A., Oberst, J., Preusker, F., Burmeister, and S., Steinbrügge, H., 2017, The reference frames of Mercury after MESSENGER, arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09686. ISSN 2329-1311 (print) ISSN 2329-132X (online) https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3404 Printed on recycled paper Prepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3404 Sheet 1 of 2 Image Map of Mercury By Marc A. Hunter, 1 Trent M. Hare, 1 Rosalyn K. Hayward, 1 Nancy L. Chabot, 2 Christopher D. Hash, 3 Brett W. Denevi, 2 Carolyn M. Ernst, 2 Scott L. Murchie, 2 David T. Blewett, 2 Erick R. Malaret, 3 and Sean C. Solomon 4 2018 Descriptions of nomenclature used on map are listed at https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government This map is also offered in an online, digital version. Users should be aware that, because of differences in rendering processes and pixel resolution, some slight distortion of scale may occur when viewing it on a computer screen or when printing it on an electronic plotter, even when it is viewed or printed at its intended publication scale For sale by U.S. Geological Survey, Information Services, Box 25286, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, 1–888–ASK–USGS Digital files available at https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3404 Suggested citation: Hunter, M.A., Hare, T.M., Hayward, R.K., Chabot, N.L., Hash, C.D., Denevi, B.W., Ernst, C.M., Murchie, S.L., Blewett, D.T., Malaret, E.R., Solomon, S.C., Becker, K.J., Becker, T.L., Weller, L.A., Edmundson, K.L., Neuman, G.A., Mazarico, E., and Perry, M.E., 2018, Image mosaic and topographic maps of Mercury: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3404, scale 1:20,000,000 and 1:12,157,366, https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3404. SCALE 1:20 000 000 (1 mm = 20 km) AT 56° LATITUDE MERCATOR PROJECTION West longitude (planetographic) coordinate system shown in black. East longitude (planetocentric) coordinate system shown in red. 1 U.S. Geological Survey, 2 Johns Hopkins University, 3 Applied Coherent Technology Corp., 4 Columbia University Prepared on behalf of the Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Edited by J.L. Zigler; digital cartography by D.L. Knifong Manuscript approved for publication April 2, 2018