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The crater identified in this NAC image was named in November 2008 for
Ronald Moody, a 20th century Jamaican sculptor and painter (see PIA11762).
Moody features a central peak or peak-ring structure and an annulus of
dark material on its outer floor (green arrows). The area inward of the
dark ring appears reddish in enhanced color WAC images (PIA11219), indicating
the presence of material different in composition from that of either the
dark material or the crater's immediate surroundings. Dark material has
been found associated with other craters on Mercury, including Munch and
Poe (PIA12034). Moody is somewhat unusual
for having its dark ring confined to the crater floor, rather than forming
the crater rim as at Munch and Poe.
Date Acquired: January 14, 2008
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 108829034
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Resolution: 590 meters/pixel (0.37 miles)
Scale: Moody is 80 kilometers (50 miles) in diameter
Spacecraft Altitude: 23,100 kilometers (14,300 miles)
These images are from MESSENGER, a NASA Discovery mission to conduct the
first orbital study of the innermost planet, Mercury. For information
regarding the use of images, see the MESSENGER image use policy.