Ani Admin
Posts : 99 Points : 151 Join date : 2010-06-07
| Subject: Mercury Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:10 am | |
| Mercury's magnetic field is "alive." Volcanic vents ring the planet's giant Caloris Basin. And Mercury has shrunk in on itself more than previously suspected. These are just a few of the new discoveries by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which flew past Mercury on January 14, 2008. The results are described in a series of 11 papers published in a special July 4th issue of Science magazine. Six of the papers in Science report studies of the planet's surface--its colors, mineralogy, and the shape of its terrain. For instance, the color enhanced image below reveals evidence of volcanic vents along the margins of Caloris basin, one of the Solar System's largest and youngest impact basins: | |
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Prest^ Admin
Posts : 76 Points : 94 Join date : 2010-07-16 Location : usa where else?
| Subject: Re: Mercury Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:28 pm | |
| Nice | |
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Ani Admin
Posts : 99 Points : 151 Join date : 2010-06-07
| Subject: Re: Mercury Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:01 am | |
| Well u must know i always do things that are nice!lol | |
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Prest^ Admin
Posts : 76 Points : 94 Join date : 2010-07-16 Location : usa where else?
| Subject: Re: Mercury Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:17 pm | |
| lol true | |
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