A photo from open sources Messenger probe sent to NASA fun a photograph. An interesting discovery was made by NASA experts at Mercury In one of the photos taken by the Messenger probe, they saw … a smiley face. PHOTO: NASA Mercury “smile” located at the bottom of a huge crater in the southern hemisphere of the planet, whose diameter reaches as much as 37 kilometers. In the center the crater is a small hill, very reminiscent of a smiling mouth, and next to it are two small hills similar to on the eyes. All together looks like a smiley (especially if look at it from the side). Messenger Takes Photo of Crater 4 October of this year. This is not the first such discovery at the closest to The sun of the planet. In June of this year, on Mercury, they saw a head Mickey Mouse – the three major craters at the South Pole are indeed resemble the head of the famous Disney mouse. True in Russia believes that the photo made by the Messenger is not visible to Mickey Mouse, and our Olympic bear. A portrait was also found on Mercury Gandhi and the head of an elephant. The messenger probe was launched from the cosmodrome to Cape Canaveral in August 2004, but only in March 2011 the spacecraft finally reached its destination – orbits Mercury After that, the probe began to study this planet, which remains one of the least explored objects Solar system. During its work, the “Messenger” collected a large amount of data and, including, made a lot high-quality photographs of the surface of Mercury. As expected, the probe will complete its work in March next year.
Nikolay ALEXANDROV
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