This image, captured by MESSENGER last October, has provided scientists with new mystery. Why are some craters on Mercury surrounded by dark material, while others have bright ejecta? Here are some other space-related links for your Friday:
- Via Jeff Foust: What happens when Richard Branson asks if you "fancy going into space"? Listen here. Foust also reports that virtually all the remaining options being considered for the future of human space flight by the Augustine committee include significant commercial elements.
- Oregon Space Grant Consortium: NASA sponsoring competition to design robotic lunar excavator.
- According to NATURE, one hunt for gravitational waves has been successful in ruling out some theoretical models of the early universe.
- Check out this Uranian crescent.
- Exoplanetology points out the exoplanets in the Big Dipper.
- Are we approaching "a Netscape Moment for the Commercial Space Industry"? Finally,
- Kentucky Space is working on some VERY exciting projects that I hope to blog about soon!
Wayne
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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