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, a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny who finally handed in the keys and retired from his wanna be research university. The students continue to be naive but great people and the administrators continue to vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional without Eli's help. Eli notices from recent political developments that this behavior is not limited to administrators. His colleagues retain their curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves. Prof. Rabett is thankful that they, or at least some of them occasionally heeded 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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