Thursday, October 09, 2008

Why Does Mercury Look So Much Like the Moon?



(from here)

They are cosmological twins!

The two bodies are even fairly close in size.

I thought Mercury was supposed to be covered with molten rock on the surface from being close to the sun (what I learned in school a long time ago). But the craters here are identical to the Moon craters? and why are the craters always perfectly round-- implying a straight vertical impact?

Wiki article on Mercury.

Possible explanations for the similarity between Mercury and the Moon:
1) NASA is faking the photos
2) Mercury and the Moon were constructed by the same beings
3) Mercury and the Moon had similar physical origins and exposure to asteroids-- and somehow ended up in very different places in the Solar system

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:16 PM

    i would like to see the photo of uranus' moon that you posted earlier this year, or maybe late last year? - the one that NASA obviously photo-shopped so we would not be able to see whatever it is that they don't want us to see.

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