English: Note: This melt pond is southeast of a fresh crater that is unnamed as of August 2020, located east of Botticelli crater. Original image caption follows.

Date acquired: November 06, 2011
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 229105038
Image ID: 980525
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 63.9°
Center Longitude: 256.5° E
Resolution: 16 meters/pixel
Scale: The smooth region is approximately 3 km (1.9 miles) across
Incidence Angle: 69.5°
Emission Angle: 15.6°
Phase Angle: 85.2°

Of Interest: This image shows a small pond of impact melt that was ejected from a crater just out of view. The melt ponded in this low, forming a smooth surface similar to the melt ponds south of Kuiper crater. North is toward the upper right corner.

This image was acquired as a high-resolution targeted observation. Targeted observations are images of a small area on Mercury's surface at resolutions much higher than the 250-meter/pixel (820 feet/pixel) morphology base map or the 1-kilometer/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel) color base map. It is not possible to cover all of Mercury's surface at this high resolution during MESSENGER's one-year mission, but several areas of high scientific interest are generally imaged in this mode each week.