slideshow of planet Mercury

Nice work by NASA.

HERE.

I love space probes in general.

My favorite line is the caption to slide 5:

“The bright pockmark in the upper half of the image is a 50-mile-wide crater called Debussy. (Craters on Mercury are named after artists, musicians and writers.)”

Slide 6 is probably the most interesting image. It’s not the most exciting planetary landscape, of course.

There will be around 75,000 more photographs of Mercury, if the mission goes as planned.