Approaching Mercury

[mmcirvin]

The MESSENGER team has a Mercury image up, but it's not much to see--just a little white crescent. It sounds as if it may be late next week before we get close images from the encounter.

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Hello harmoniums!

[timchuma.livejournal.com]

Aren't they going to run out of good sci-fi to name things after eventually?

Re: Hello harmoniums!

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I really wanted the dark equatorial regions on Titan (http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#TITAN) to be named Winston, Niles, Rumfoord and Kazak (the latter reserved for the one that the ESO astronomers called "Dog" (http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2004/images/phot-11f-04-preview.jpg)). But they have other names. Of course, now there are actual lakes and seas known near the poles...