Messenger Flies by Mercury 170
Riding with Robots writes "Today, more than three decades after the last spacecraft visited Mercury, Messenger buzzed just 200 kilometers above the planet's surface. During the encounter, the robotic spacecraft conducted a range of scientific observations, including imaging swaths of Mercury's surface that have never been seen up close before. A few of the first pictures are now available, with many more to come in the next few days."
Re:Cant wait (Score:5, Funny)
Or... a Predator! *ducks*
It's a FAKE! (Score:5, Funny)
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The Planet?
They just took a few shots of the moon if you ask me.
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After they found the Face... (Score:2, Funny)
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Oblig. (Score:0, Funny)
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Sorry.
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Plus, the Mercury citizens have learned to simply abbreviate as '08' on their paper calendars-- if you write all the zeros, the paper calendars usually catch fire before you are done-- so it's important to write quickly!
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Re:Three Cheers for NASA! (Score:5, Funny)
cool stuff? Now come on, this is Mercury.
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Global warming on Mercury (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:It's a FAKE! (Score:3, Funny)
Not only that, but if you look closely enough, you can see it's just one of the faked moon photos upside down! Definitely a hoax!
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You forgot to add:
You can look up rhetorically in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorically [wikipedia.org]
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Yeah, but the emo nights are the worst. Planets can be so bipolar!