Cool Astro Pics

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury (and deep into the Sun’s gravity field) did another flyby and snapped some pics. Here’s the only one they seem to be releasing, annotated:

I recently read that there are remarkably few boulders on the surface of Mercury, reason unknown. And, beyond WOW!, that’s about all I can contribute.

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Former BBS operator; software engineer; cat lackey.

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