'Hollows' mark Mercury's surface (BBC)

eppur_se_muova

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Fri Sep-30-11 11:32 AM
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'Hollows' mark Mercury's surface (BBC)

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News

Hands up who thought Mercury was just a dull rock circling close to the Sun?

The latest data returned by Nasa's Messenger probe shows that view couldn't be further from the truth.

In among a raft of papers published in this week's edition of the journal Science, researchers reveal strange hollows that pock Mercury's surface.

Irregular in shape, these depressions seem to form in the bright deposits that have been excavated where meteorites have impacted the surface.

The Messenger team cannot be sure what has caused them, but on Mars similar features are also known to exist.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15113388

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MineralMan

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Fri Sep-30-11 11:48 AM
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1. I drove into a "hollow" in Kentucky once.

Edited on Fri Sep-30-11 11:48 AM by MineralMan

At the end of the road was a very unfriendly man with a shotgun. I left that place quickly. I advise caution with the "hollows" on Mercury, too.

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eppur_se_muova

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Fri Sep-30-11 11:58 AM
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2. I drove past a "Booger Hollow Road" in Georgia ...

Edited on Fri Sep-30-11 12:00 PM by eppur_se_muova

saw a sign pointing to "Booger Hollow Road Church".

Surpsingly, "Booger Hollow" shows multiple hits in a Google search. There's even a town by that name.

The town of Boozeville, Georgia was formerly named Booger Hollow.

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dtexdem

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Fri Sep-30-11 12:42 PM
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3. God's golf balls?

;-)

Well, who knows, She might play.

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