Russ
01-31-2008, 12:23 PM
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.
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.