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The rotation of Mercury, frank.melillo@astrophotos

The rotation of Mercury

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I made a two image animation showing Mercury a slight rotation from left to right. Between two days,

it rotated about 9 degrees in longitude. Note that two rayed craters Ellington and Debussy (bottom) moved

with the rotation while the phase advanced.

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