New photo of Mercury

[FemurBone]

New Photo of Mercury taken by NASA's Messenger probe. It was taken a few days ago. It's a photo of the previously unseen side.

 

[Maurice]

What's that black slab standing in that crater for?

 

[Mark de Vries]

It's visually not the most amazing planet, but still: it's a look at part of a world we've never seen. Those four or five dark-rimmed craters in the upper right seem to have thrown up a layer of grey dust around them. It's as if they covered up a large area on impact. We don't see that anywhere else on the surface.

 

[Zachary Smith]

How shockingly different than any photos of Mercury we've ever seen before . . .

 

[Brent]

Very awesome!

What is Messengers mission?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Wouldnt it be cool to send a big bunch of nukes and make our own crater bigger than all the rest.

 

[T J]

Welcome to Wiki.

 

[Spider]

You can follow the mission and look at more pictures at NASA's Messanger web site.

 

[Brent]

Thanks, I found it, VERY cool!

 

[Ronald Held]

Thanks for posting the image.