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Showing posts with label smooth side of Mercury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smooth side of Mercury. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2013

MESSENGER sees the smooth side of Mercury


During the two years of its location in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has made ​​more than 150,000 images of the planet closest to the Sun, the solar system, first giving us the opportunity to think about the extremely rough, parched surface of the planet in feature. But not all areas on Mercury look stern and sinister: it also has a smooth side, you can see on the picture, published today.

Here we see the smooth sides and bottom Mercurian irregular depressions in high definition.