heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Mercury!

[El Dildo]

 

much higher resolution:

http://i.imgur.com/6470DWA.jpg

 

 

Mercury orbiter MESSENGER may have ended its mission last year, but scientists are still sorting through the reams of data it collected—more than 10 terabytes of data and 300,000 images—over its extended four-year mission. The latest result is a global digital elevation map of the planet, which you can see an animation of here (higher elevations are brown, yellow, and red; lower elevations are in blue and purple). The highest point on Mercury is about 14,700 feet above average elevation, about as tall as Mount Bear in Alaska. The MESSENGER team also released a new image of Mercury’s north pole (right) that shows great detail about the planet’s past volcanic activity. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. May 6, 2016.

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[Kirsty]

What's it like, men, looking at the surface of your home planet?

 

In all seriousness, it's great to be alive where we can see images like this of things that are literally out of this world and so far away. I can't begin to imagine what people in a few hundred years get to witness. Space is so big, neverending, and here we are leading tiny little lives posting on GTAForums. It's goddamn scary.

[Sombra]

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/265763main_carina07_hst_big_full.jpg

 

f*ckin space n sh*t yo only linking it because #1 it was my desktop for like 3 years and #2 its xbox hueg image

[dudclub55]

What's it like, men, looking at the surface of your home planet?

 

In all seriousness, it's great to be alive where we can see images like this of things that are literally out of this world and so far away. I can't begin to imagine what people in a few hundred years get to witness. Space is so big, neverending, and here we are leading tiny little lives posting on GTAForums. It's goddamn scary.

 

A few hundred years is hardly much at all, unless we get discover some magic breakthrough in physics that allows for FTL travel or some sh*t.

In a few hundred years, we'll either be dead or become significantly more efficient.

[Gnocchi Flip Flops]

 

What's it like, men, looking at the surface of your home planet?

 

In all seriousness, it's great to be alive where we can see images like this of things that are literally out of this world and so far away. I can't begin to imagine what people in a few hundred years get to witness. Space is so big, neverending, and here we are leading tiny little lives posting on GTAForums. It's goddamn scary.

 

A few hundred years is hardly much at all, unless we get discover some magic breakthrough in physics that allows for FTL travel or some sh*t.

In a few hundred years, we'll either be dead or become significantly more efficient.

 

Um, it's highly like that we'll know a lot more about the universe than we do now in just 50 years, dude. So hundreds of years is a big difference. And I highly doubt that we'll be dead by then unless something major happens and in that case, sh*t, we could be dead by next week if something major happened.

 

We barely knew a fraction of what we know about the universe just over a decade ago. So I don't know what you're talking about.

[dudclub55]

If we're going to continue down the path we are taking, we are going to seriously suffer. We're already impacting the planet in massive ways.

and I meant travel, obviously discovering information and unearthing knowledge is easier, but the methods we use aren't necessarily super direct and probes aren't really practical for anything outside the solar system.

[El Dildo]

Space is so big, neverending, and here we are leading tiny little lives posting on GTAForums. It's goddamn scary.

nah, you have to look at it like my boy Niel Degrasse.

 

looking up to the skies at night can make you feel relatively small of course, but at the same time, you have to know that we're all a part of it, too. we came from it. it's a part of us. we're a part of it. it's within us. we are made of the universe, from the universe, and we've become a way for the universe to actually see and feel and experience itself.

 

we are the universe looking at itself.

how cool is that?

 

 

[X S]

 

literally...

 

I think the surface of Mercury is 800 F / 427 C

[AlienTwo]

 

Space is so big, neverending, and here we are leading tiny little lives posting on GTAForums. It's goddamn scary.

nah, you have to look at it like my boy Niel Degrasse.

 

looking up to the skies at night can make you feel relatively small of course, but at the same time, you have to know that we're all a part of it, too. we came from it. it's a part of us. we're a part of it. it's within us. we are made of the universe, from the universe, and we've become a way for the universe to actually see and feel and experience itself.

 

we are the universe looking at itself.

how cool is that?

 

That's f*cking beautiful.

[MCMXCII]

We're all made of star dust. If I lived out in the country and far away from the city and it's light pollution, I would look at the stars every night. Space is a majestic and beautiful thing to look at.

[Eram]

If you watch the night sky in the middle of the Atlantic or the Pacific you'll undoubtedly be amazed with all the "stuff" one misses when onshore (even if in some isolated place).

[GTA_stu]

What's it like, men, looking at the surface of your home planet?

 

It's got holes, so naturally I wanna stick my dick in there.