You need to upgrade your Flash Player The theme of this blog is not only and obviously space, but in particular “terrestrial worlds”, places that tend to have surfaces on which one could walk or at least attach oneself to. These places sometimes also have other earth-like familiar features such as atmospheres, weather, volcanos, geysers and perhaps, we are finding, even exotic oceans, rivers or lakes that are not necessarily made of familiar materials we are used to here at home. The second theme is imagery. Occasionally I do some retouching of images when needed if an image is incomplete or sometimes “dirty” or noisy. I will attempt to correct image shortcomings based upon other images or well-accepted presumed attributes. When this is done, notes will be offered as to what was added, why and sometimes how it was done. This way no one should ever wonder if something they are looking at is real or photoshop.
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Wallpaper: Mercury Portrait

Wallpaper: Mercury

Sadly, Mercury has got to be the least interesting of the planets. It lacks any moons, lacks any substantial atmosphere and seems at a glance to be a duplicate of our own moon. At this point in time there has only been one mission to study Mercury up-close, Mariner 10 in 1973, so our information is quite limited. However, there is a mission on its way to Mercury right now named Messenger as well as a European/Japanese effort name Bepi-Columbo. Perhaps those missions will enlighten us all to things unseen on Mercury.

NOTE: This “portrait” wallpaper has been updated with a more recent color image taken during the January 2008 Messenger flyby.

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7 Responses to “Wallpaper: Mercury Portrait”

  1. dan Says:
    December 9th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

    i dont think its that boring but sure it doesnt have anything but its still a planetand closest to the sun

  2. thomas Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    i am a little bored.

  3. Charlotte Says:
    December 15th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

    could you give us a BIT more info on mercury cause i gotta du a project on it and i can’t with this info!!! (can i?)

  4. thomas Says:
    December 16th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    Why not try planetary.org for their run-down of Mercury. This site is really image-centric and the science and info is more the icing, seeing as Mercury has very little imagery to work with it is poorly represented here. However, that will soon change with the Messenger mission currently on its way to our smallest planet.

  5. Wills Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    I think it is quite interesting. Most people (not me) think Uranus is most boring, as it is very plain.

  6. thomas Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Hey, lets try and keep Uranus out of this.

  7. amina Says:
    June 26th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    I love the mystery of astrology… the space, universe….. I’m always keen to know what is beyond the universe???? Everything has it’s end so I do believe that this universe ends somewhere….. I know it’s what I think but I love to dream and wonder about it……….

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