Mysterious Spider Crater Found on Mercury

[Russ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080130/sc_nm/space_mercury_dc.




The U.S. space agency's car-sized MESSENGER spacecraft on January 14 flew past Mercury, whose diameter is just a third the size of Earth's, and its seven scientific instruments gathered new information about the little understood planet.
Data collected by MESSENGER showed that a massive impact crater on its surface is larger than previously thought.


Another mystery of Mercury. I found it ironic that we are trying to find things out about other solar systems, and we don't even know half of what there is to know about our own.

[Jenny]

they know more about other planets then they do our ocean :)

[Sute]

I appreciate the news lady's seriously creative gesture.

[Pineconn]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080131/2008_01_30t165735_450x319_us_space_mercury.jpg?x=4 00&y=283&sig=j7iGUnrMTjR1yCgBiRVvuA--

I don't see the spider. I see a circular crater with a few lines under it.

[phattonez]

Another mystery of Mercury. I found it ironic that we are trying to find things out about other solar systems, and we don't even know half of what there is to know about our own.

Mercury is a part of our solar system.;)

[erm2003]

Mercury is a part of our solar system.;)

I think what he meant was scientists are researching a lot of things that exist well past our own solar system yet there is so much that we haven't uncovered about the planets and other parts of this system.

[Russ]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080131/2008_01_30t165735_450x319_us_space_mercury.jpg?x=4 00&y=283&sig=j7iGUnrMTjR1yCgBiRVvuA--

I don't see the spider. I see a circular crater with a few lines under it.
You don't think that it resembles a spider? I sort of do.


Mercury is a part of our solar system.;)
I know that. I mean scientists are sending probes outside the solar syatem, only to find mysteries less than 93 million miles away in our own solar system.