This high-resolution view of Mercury shows hollows — the irregularly shaped, flat-floored depressions — on the southwestern peak ring of the Scarlatti basin. Although there are a number of small impact craters surrounding the hollows, there are few, if any, within the hollows themselves, indicating that they are much younger than the rest of the planet's Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie 1 posted on
04/03/2015 7:41:53 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
2 posted on
04/03/2015 7:49:58 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: BenLurkin
“The MESSENGER spacecraft has survived the severe thermal and radiation hazards of the inner solar system, including strong heating by Mercury’s dayside surface and direct impact by coronal mass ejections and other energetic solar events,” he said. “Even though we know that the probe’s days are numbered, MESSENGER has been a reliable source of exciting new information, and its loss will sadden all of us who have followed its successes.”
Engineering at its best.
4 posted on
04/03/2015 7:53:24 AM PDT by
samtheman
To: BenLurkin
5 posted on
04/03/2015 8:24:47 AM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: BenLurkin
In Kentucky they call ‘em “hollers”.
6 posted on
04/03/2015 8:27:04 AM PDT by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: BenLurkin
Cave-ins? A soft layer that collapsed, by quakes or millions of years of brutal temperature differences?
8 posted on
04/03/2015 8:36:53 AM PDT by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: BenLurkin
That’s where the pool was.
11 posted on
04/03/2015 8:51:12 PM PDT by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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