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Originally Posted by Jerry
Sorry, missed my cue.
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Sorry I asked a question your fantasy-physics can't answer.
I really should have known better.
All we ever get is the promises -- never the promised land.
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Images, and discussion of reality:
BA Blog: Watermelon Planet
JHUAPL MESSENGER Mission: Gallery: Science Photos
More there.
Edit, hours later: More, at
Planetary Society Weblog: First images from MESSENGER's second flyby of Mercury:
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[...] Every one of the craters that you can see in this image of Mercury would have produced such a ray system originally -- the rays from the larger craters would have been even more dramatic, if you can believe it -- but space weathering has erased all those rays except for the ones from the most recent impacts, like Kuiper just below center.
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To help in piecing together where the image releases go, here's a context map I've put together showing the locations of recent image releases, as well as names of craters previously seen by Mariner 10. There are other named craters in between the ones with white letters and Kuiper, but they are hard to spot on the MESSENGER image and I wasn't confident enough in their locations to mark them on the map.
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