First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
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First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
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#2It looks like the moon. Maybe it is a moon?
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#3I have looked forward to this as much as I still look forward to the New Horizons probe to the outermost edge of the solar system, to Pluto.
Mercury has some exhilarating mysteries, and I look forward to seeing the probe unlock them.
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#5I have looked forward to this as much as I still look forward to the New Horizons probe to the outermost edge of the solar system, to Pluto. Mercury has some exhilarating mysteries, and I look forward to seeing the probe unlock them.
Some things will become clear but it'll be like cutting heads off the Hydra. But that's the fun part of science - every question answered seems to raise many more.
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#6Looks like you don't want to be there when it 'rains'. But it's amazing how far the impact of the big crater reaches. I wonder if these are cracks in the surface or sprays of dust.
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#7Why aren't there that many craters in Earth?
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#8Any other boomers think back to the days of John Glenn?
(edited because I forgot the first two flights didn't orbit)
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#9I have looked forward to this as much as I still look forward to the New Horizons probe to the outermost edge of the solar system, to Pluto. Mercury has some exhilarating mysteries, and I look forward to seeing the probe unlock them.
Some things will become clear but it'll be like cutting heads off the Hydra. But that's the fun part of science - every question answered seems to raise many more.
Hear hear. Here's to the questions. The foundation, root, body and crown of science.