Geologic map of the Kuiper Quadrangle of Mercury

Basic information about the planetary surface of the Kuiper quadrangle is provided by three sequences of high-quality photographs designated Mercury I, II, and II, obtained during the incoming phases of three encounters of the Mariner 10 spacecraft with Mercury. Mercury I includes 75 whole-frame photographs of the Kuiper quadrangle; Mercury II, 13 whole-frame photographs; and Mercury III, 70 quarter-frame photographs. The photographs include 19 stereopairs in the southern part of the quadrangle. The most distant of the photographs was taken at an altitude of 89,879 km, the closest at an altitude of 7,546 km. Resolution, therefore, varies widely but ranges from about 1.5 to 2.0 km over most of the area.

本数据集提供了水星柯伊伯象限（Kuiper quadrangle）行星表面的基础信息，数据源自水手10号（Mariner 10）探测器三次飞越水星过程中接近阶段拍摄的三组高质量照片序列，分别编号为水星I、水星II与水星III。水星I序列包含75张覆盖该象限的整幅照片；水星II序列包含13张整幅照片；水星III序列则包含70张四分之一幅面照片。该批照片中包含19组该象限南部区域的立体像对（stereopairs）。拍摄最远照片时的成像高度为89879千米，最近的为7546千米。因此图像分辨率差异较大，但该区域绝大多数范围的分辨率介于1.5至2.0千米之间。