In
this view, south is to the top and the terminator (the imaginary line dividing
day from night) lies near the equator. The landing site (at the tip of the
arrow) is near the boundary of two distinctly different provinces, both
of which the spacecraft will photograph as it descends. To the south and
east (above and to the left) lies older, cratered terrain, while to the
north (down) is the saddle-shaped feature Himeros, whose lesser density
of superposed craters indicates relatively recent resurfacing by geologic
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