Date of discovery: June 19, 2011Location of discovery: Planet Mercury, by Messenger Probe
Phil Plait (Worst...I mean Bad Astronomer) was talking about the new Mercury Messenger photos on Twitter the other day and I decided to focus on them a bit. He constantly says NASA has nothing to hide, yet we constantly get fuzzy photos of distant planets with black rectangles cut out of them.
I looked over this recent Mercury Messenger photo and found many new faces right next to one another. The smallest is sitting in a crater bed. The other three look like a guerrilla, Elf with giant eyes and a Yoda like face with body.
The faces were intriguing, yet not what kept my attention. What I notices was a rusted away hull of a surface area of Mercury that seems to be broken and exposed...as if it were a giant city under the same roof. If you have ever seen the movie Matrix, then you might have an idea what this city might look like walking through. I would really like to see the rest of the map that was cut out and kept from us (the black rectangle areas).Also can you see the face below? The eroding roof of the city.
Credit to NASA for the faces...er....cities...er...the photo.Source of photo: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/pics/3 Solomon 3 4 5.jpg
