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MindMover

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Wed Mar 21, 2012, 06:24 PM Mar 2012

Planet Mercury Even Weirder Than We Thought

New data suggests that Mercury has undergone much more dynamic processes than previously believed and that its core is unlike any of the other rocky planets in our solar system.

NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which has been in orbit around the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet for just over a year, has beamed back plenty of surprises for scientists here on Earth.

“I thought the surface of Mercury would turn out to be complex and the interior simple,” said planetary scientist Maria Zuber of MIT, who is a member of the MESSENGER team and co-author of two new papers on the planet that appear March 21 in Science. “Instead, our data has been such a surprise that we kept thinking we were interpreting it wrong.”


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/dynamic-mercury-geology/?

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I like the word Weirder........especially today when things just keep getting Weirder.....
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Planet Mercury Even Weirder Than We Thought (Original Post) MindMover Mar 2012 OP
Well, maybe weirder than *they* thought, but not *me*: freshwest Mar 2012 #1

freshwest

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1. Well, maybe weirder than *they* thought, but not *me*:
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 06:39 PM
Mar 2012
I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.

Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet

And I feel the same way most days.
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