This is the first shot ever from a craft orbiting Mercury. Click the headline to go to a site that serves up a quick visual size comparison for every planet in the solar system.
It looks like the Moon and it's only 1.4 times bigger. I do like the obvious high velocity impact crater that shows all the white bedrock. Maybe it's solid uranium.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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Or maybe a spitball straight off the Sun
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