More Mercury!

[mmcirvin]

MESSENGER has done its second flyby of Mercury and sent back some pictures.

The previously unseen regions of Mercury are largely covered by the rays from a single young crater, which had been previously seen only in radar images.

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Indeed!

[timchuma.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing a simulation of such crater being created on Mercury in a solar system program on the BBC Micro. I don't even think it was 8bit, but they had the sound effects and all. They didn't replace those computers until after I left high school six years later.