Mystery of Mercury: The Shrinking Planet


	Mystery of Mercury: The Shrinking Planet

tabsey

2-2-2008 9:10 AM

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What is wrong with shrinking as you get older?

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Images from the never-before-seen side of Mercury reveal that Mercury is a lot more exciting that we ever knew. Mercury has always been a bit of an oddball as the only planet in the Solar System that does not follow a basically circular orbit. Although, it does have one other oddball to commiserate with. Earth and Mercury are the only two planets in the Solar System to have a magnetosphere.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/02/mystery-of-merc.html"><P>Now new images revealed that the planet is shrinking, covered in
volcanic scars and sporting an unusual “birthmark”. A huge spider shape
is fascinating scientists and causing speculation and some debate.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/02/mystery-of-merc.html"><P>
The spider shape captured is "unlike anything we've seen anywhere in
the solar system," said mission chief scientist Sean Solomon of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington. The image reveals what appears to
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