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Messenger's Pictures From Mercury Surprise Scientists

The Washington Post: The Messenger spacecraft that sped past Mercury on Jan. 14 sent back pictures of a geological formation never seen before in the solar system: a central depression with more than 100 narrow troughs radiating out from it.

Posted by Physics Today on January 31, 2008 2:49 PM |

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