October 7, 2008 11:52 AM PDT
In these two images taken on August 2, 2005, Mercury Dual Imaging System's wide-angle camera shows off its capabilities. The three-band composite at left is very close to the image that would be seen by the human eye.
For the image on the right, a red component was substituted that shows near infra-red colors. The vegetation in the Amazon basin produces the red color in this image. As you can see, the tests were extremely successful.
Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Caption by Andy Smith
