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    Default Mercury Fly By

    Many may not know but a couple of days ago Messenger space craft flew by Mercury and gave us some tremendous photos.

    Here is the link for anyone interested





Look Here ->
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    Amazing pictures.
    Contrast between the pictures of Earth, Venus and Mercury (and Mars on other sites) is astounding.
    The balance that we are in for the existance of our environmentis so narrow on a cosmic scale..
    Comfortably numb...
    And NO, Google is NOT my friend...

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    Looks just like the Moon, only hotter.

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    Messenger was launched in August 2004, after it does a couple more passes of Mercury then it will completely map the surface in 2011 that's such a long time for the craft to out there.

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    Strange to think in the photo it look cool and calm like our moon, as mentioned previously, but of cause it's hotter than anything humans could comprehend well at least this human would not fancy a midday temp of 430 celcius.

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    But there are areas at the poles that are well below freezing, so you would imagine that somewhere, maybe halfway up a cold crater-wall perhaps, that could possibly support a research station or something.

    The solar panels would work pretty well anyway

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    I'm dissapointed with mercury. It's even more boring than I imagined.
    It's blocking my view of the sun and I think we should tow it out to be a moon of venus, or at least crash the two together and enjoy the wreckage.

    I wanna drop some more probes into Jupiter.... it's like droping stones in a well and listening to them bounce on the way down before the big splash.

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    I'd like to see a probe dropped into Europa - I think that's the one with the liquid subsurface "ocean".

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    One expects more meteors to have falen on a univers that is so calles billinons of years old......about 10 000 i would say looking at that pic...in high def

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    More pics will follow it has to do another pass before it starts to orbit Mercury to map the surface, as I have read.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Terracon View Post
    One expects more meteors to have falen on a univers that is so calles billinons of years old......about 10 000 i would say looking at that pic...in high def
    Don't start with the young-universe fantasy rubbish....actually GO FOR IT - in a new thread.

    Fresh meat....

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    haha .... I got news for ya..... the next pictures are gunna look the same.
    Small rocky planet, more craters, and LOTS of sunshine !

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