Mercury Turns Out To Be a Weird Little World 90
sighted writes "The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER, now orbiting the first planet, has found new findings odd features on its surface, including unexplained, blueish 'hollows' that may be actively forming today. The findings will be published this week in Science. One scientist said, 'The conventional wisdom was that Mercury is just like the Moon. But from its vantage point in orbit, MESSENGER is showing us that Mercury is radically different from the Moon in just about every way we can measure.'" As you might expect, National Geographic has beautiful imagery to go along with the story.
Has found new findings? (Score:1, Funny)
has found new findings
As opposed to what? Finding old findings?
Re:Blue String Soup (Score:4, Funny)
A little higher res and we will be able to make out the blue string soup
It would have been great if on one of these planets we saw something moving around ... sure would be a kick in the ol' Space Program, then, eh?
it's great to be alive in 1960 (Score:2, Funny)
Amazing that probes now enable us to learn what the planets of our solar system are really like.
I predict that, within our lifetimes, the United States will routinely send astro-men into orbit and, perhaps, one day to the moon.
Re:How is Mercury "just like the Moon"? (Score:4, Funny)
PS anyone else ever get annoyed by how Wikipedia is inconsistent in how it lists statistics for planetary bodies? Drives me nuts when trying to make comparisons, or even just get useful information.
Yeah. I wish there was a way to change that.