I know we're supposed to oohh and ahhh over these kinds of things. And believe me, I love the pictures from the outer solar system, from Voyager, Cassini, etc. But pictures like this of Mercury, the Moon --and even Mars and the hellish Venus -- make me very grateful for Earth.
Most of the solar system is very boring and desolate, and of course uninhabitable.
Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves. Prof. Rabett is thankful that they occasionally heed his pointing out the implications of the various enthusiasms that rattle around the department and school. Ms. Rabett is thankful that Prof. Rabett occasionally heeds her pointing out that he is nuts.
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I know we're supposed to oohh and ahhh over these kinds of things. And believe me, I love the pictures from the outer solar system, from Voyager, Cassini, etc. But pictures like this of Mercury, the Moon --and even Mars and the hellish Venus -- make me very grateful for Earth.
Most of the solar system is very boring and desolate, and of course uninhabitable.
- MaxiMouse
mighty big splat there
Exactly, there but for the grace of the atmosphere and biosphere go we.
A color-filter version of that image and a few others are available on the MESSENGER website. http://messenger.jhuapl.edu
Terrain not previously seen by spacecraft... that's hella cool!
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