Mercury has not touched area veil unveiled: the giant impact crater (map)

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According to the NASA space network reported that NASA's "Courier New", the mercury detector for observations show that had never seen before in 30% of the surface of mercury. In addition also found a giant impact crater and evidence of ancient volcanic. Photos of the show, a huge impact crater diameter equivalent to Washington to Boston.

Enormous impact on the discovery of the planet pit

The "Messenger", the probe launched in 2004, in October 2008 for the second time a short distance across the planet. It is since the 1970s "sailor 10" probe flew across the planet, the first specialized detection of Mercury probe. Previously, 4 big rocky worlds — mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, people from the Earth's recent mercury know the least. Previously it had been considered components, similar to the Moon, because these two spheres have similar gray and holes in the road surface. New observations indicate that Mercury's shell basic formation by volcanism, former volcanic lava, spread, and then dried in Mercury's surface. However, volcanism is considered in the Lunar crust formation rarely play a role.

Arizona State University School of Earth and space exploration of the researchers, postdoctoral Brett · Denis Wei said: "in mercury, volcanism of the process is critical, it's exciting, because in the ' Messenger ' before you probe flew past mercury, we even do not determine the Volcanism on mercury. ”

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