| Summary: | We produced a new higher-resolution topographic map of Mercury’s south polar region (75°-90° South, covering ~1.3 million km 2 ) by using data collected by the NASA MESSENGER spacecraft’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS; Hawkins et al, 2007) over the years 2011-2015. This new map enables, e.g. , the first detailed modeling of illumination and thermal conditions in these southern radar-bright locations and the first constraints on the nature and history of volatiles residing there, but it is also intended as a resource for other geophysical analyses and for the preparation of the BepiColombo mission, currently en-route to the planet. For more details, please visit https://pgda.gsfc.nasa.gov/products/88 . Products: DEM (interpolated), DEM (filled), Slopes, PSR masks All these files (except the PSR masks shapefile) are 250 m/pix GeoTiffs with south polar stereographic X/Y coords in meters. If using these products, please cite: Bertone, S., E. Mazarico, M.K. Barker, M. Siegler, J. M. Martinez Camacho, C. Hamill, A. Glatzenberg, N. L. Chabot, 2022: Highly resolved topography and illumination at Mercury south pole from MESSENGER MDIS-NAC . The Planetary Science Journal, 02/2023, doi:10.3847/PSJ/acaddb This material is based upon work supported by NASA through the Planetary Geodesy Internal Scientist Funding Model work package funded by the NASA Planetary Science Division, through the CRESST II cooperative agreement under award number 80GSFC21M0002, and by the NASA Discovery Data Analysis Program grant 80NSSC19K0881.
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