For those of you who aren’t keeping up on space news, some neat stuff happened this week.
First, NASA’s space probe Messenger shot back images of planet Mercury that revealed a mysterious crater that scientists are calling “the spider.” I don’t know all of the details, but apparently Mercury and our moon aren’t as similar as once was thought. (I never realized how similar they were until my house became overrun with myriad cardboard and plastic planets – we’re always getting Mercury and the moon mixed up around here.)
And, pictured here is an image posted by The Planetary Society blog of a smiley-face crater on Mars. It was taken by a camera that’s cataloging the surface of the red planet in super high resolution from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Declan was already asleep when I found this post tonight. I can’t wait to show it to him in the morning. It looks like one of his drawings.
Copyright Tracy Zollinger Turner, Tinymantras.com, 2008.
Man, that’s crazy cool!
Quite interesting! I’ve always wondered about goings on in space, but never really take the time to look into it.
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Have a great week!