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Shadowalker
Apocaloptimist

Reged: 11/23/04

Loc: Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, ...

Look at this crater on Mercury
#5072148 - 02/14/12 01:36 PM

here.

Orange ejecta. We need a lander to find out what it is!

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Rick Woods
Postmaster

Reged: 01/27/05

Loc: Inner Solar System

Re: Look at this crater on Mercury new

[Re: Shadowalker]
#5072185 - 02/14/12 02:02 PM

Maybe similar to the orange soil found by Apollo 17? Glass beads, formed in an ancient eruption.

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Ira
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 08/22/10

Loc: Mitzpe Ramon, Israel

Re: Look at this crater on Mercury new

[Re: Rick Woods]
#5073671 - 02/15/12 12:40 PM

Someone spilled Orangina. Aliens?

/Ira

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deSitter
Still in Old School

Reged: 12/09/04

Re: Look at this crater on Mercury new

[Re: Ira]
#5073931 - 02/15/12 03:16 PM

That's an owie that got fixed with mercurychrome.

-drl

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contrailmaker
Pooh-Bah

Reged: 01/02/09

Re: Look at this crater on Mercury new

[Re: deSitter]
#5074372 - 02/15/12 07:30 PM

I wonder how much enhancement they did to the colors on that image. Having said that, I agree with Tom. Its time to start sending sample recovery missions.

cm

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deSitter
Still in Old School

Reged: 12/09/04

Re: Look at this crater on Mercury new

[Re: contrailmaker]
#5075107 - 02/16/12 09:25 AM

Mercury has always seemed a little tawny to me - I once saw it in the same high power field of view as Venus and it was quite ruddy in comparison. Of course it's not very high in the sky so some of that is low hanging murk. However, even with the naked eye in a mostly dark sky, it does appear leaden, like Saturn.

-drlu

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