I was darkening Planet Mercury a tad, so I could see the Craters better when I stumbled onto this image. The link to the original photo is below, along with a photo of the original. There are faces on Mars, so why not Mercury? Click on Image to enlarge.
Link to Original Image: http://apod.lunexit.it/?archive=236
Hokusai Crater
ADDED EXTRA Right below ape. Crater with building and tower. Hmmm?
Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington and Dr Paolo C. Fienga/LXTT/IPF for the additional process. and color.
This mosaic of NAC images shows the Impact Crater Hokusai, located on the Planet Mercury at a Latitude of approx. 58° North. Hokusai (that here is visible near the Upper Limb of Mercury, at about one o’ clock), shows an impressive System of Rays, which extend as much as a thousand kilometers (such as more than 600 miles) across the entire Planet and are they are the longest that have yet been identified on Mercury.
These Rays are formed when an Impact excavates Material from beneath the Surface and then throws it outward from the newly created Crater. These Bright Rays, consisting of both Ejecta and Secondary Craters (which form when the ejected material re-impacts the Surface), slowly begin to fade as they are exposed to the harsh Space Environment. Mercury and other airless Planetary Bodies are being constantly bombarded with Micrometeoroids and Energetic Ions (think about, for instance, to the Energetic Particles forming the Solar Wind), both concurring to produce an effect known as “Space Weathering“.
Craters with Bright Rays are thought to be relatively young, because the Rays are still visible, and this fact indicates that they have suffered less exposure to the aformentioned Space Weathering Processes than Impact Craters which lack Rays; well, such a consideration is basically correct BUT, as IPF, we have to say and underline, however (and just for the sake of clarity), that it should also be considered the fact that the creation of a System of Rays emanating from a certain (given) Impact Crater depends, among other things, on the existence (and simultaneous concurrence) of a number of additional circumstances, whose lack may very well lead to the formation of a “Rayless” (or an almost “Rayless“) Impact Crater.
In other words: the lack of Rays IS NOT (and CANNOT be considered) a 100% reliable indicator that a specific Impact Crater is “old”!.
Although the extent of some of Hokusai‘s Rays has been determined, the images acquired during the NASA – MESSENGER Spacecraft‘s 3rd Fly-By of Planet Mercury were not good enough to show all of them. However, during the NASA – MESSENGER Spacecraft‘s Orbital Observations, which have started in March 2011, the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) has already acquired high-resolution color images that are fit to cover almost the entire Surface of Mercury. Afterwards, when the Global Color Map of Planet Mercury is complete, then Scientists shall finally be able to better understand the effective extent of the unbelievable Systems of Rays emanating from Hokusai Crater, as well as the characteristics and extent of other System of Rays emanating from quite a few other young Mercurian Impact Craters, which are now going to be mapped for the first time in History.
Date Acquired: October, 6th, 2008 Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) Scale: the diameter of the Planet Mercury is of about 4880 Km (such as approx. 3030,48 miles) and Hokusai Crater has a diameter of approx. 95 Km (such as about 58,995 miles)
This frame has been colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA – MESSENGER Spacecraft and then looked outside, towards the Planet Mercury), by using an original technique created – and, in time, dramatically improved – by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team.
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what if its a giant statue? or nothing at all
Its a giant statue of Bert from the muppets – nothing to worry about
Laughable. this should have its’ own thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5FNDRgPOLs
THIS IS A MUST WATCH! This left vs. right crap must stop. Realize who the real enemy is, people!!
its called hypnopopic when you can see images in shapes that are completely random and without basis, dont worry its not catching though I am certain they have a medication for that.
I have these pics I took of the Full moon on 7/5/12. They all showed a grey spot next to the moon on the left, so I zoomed in. @ first I thought it was an anomalous grey blob or lens flare. You will notice the RED LEN FLARE that was there in Fact, but then I thought I caught an Asteroid!! I studied several shots I took and noticed faces, all different, but in the same grey spot, here are the pics of the Dragon Face i caught on my 4-G Apple I-Phone:
1) Chinese looking dragon: http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u490/Cmac222/7-6-12032.jpg
2) Gecko-looking reptilian big Eye-3 Claws on bottom left: http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u490/Cmac222/7-6-12033.jpg
3) The never-ending story looking dragon -side View: http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u490/Cmac222/7-6-12037.jpg
if anyone has any info on these images, I would appreciate it. all I know is that it was late, like 1-2 AM EST and i was very tired and I felt a COMPELLING URGE to take these shots.
I think it is pretty well defined. very odd indeed. It looks like there even might be an arm reaching down. You are right NASA. The world will never truly believe.
I see a pig on the moon one night through my telescope.
That was the night before I got abducted and PROBED.
i am one of the first one’s to say yes that look’s good…but this is so laughable i near fell of my chair..
bring me something that look’s real…boy crazy or what probably been on the pop and got double vision..
Your mind takes random shapes and tries to fit them with known objects! Look at clouds sometimes!
Piss off with your stupidity! This is childish rubbish that should have been left at glp. And If this is supposed to be funny then it fails big time ! And 8 comments ! Don’t see your comments on any intelligent story !
well it’s got EYES!, LOOK at it!!
The APE or APES (Ah-pees) is the Alchemye list name for those of Sirius. The Prince of Dark Men. Other names the Apes use is THOTH MERCURY HERMES and Ningishzidda which is an Anun.nakim name
Sirius and the Anu being in very close alliance, the dog of Sirius close on the heels of Orion (Anu) the Hunter
It is not my belief after reading the 14 Clay Tablets of Enki and the Hidden Texts of Nostradamus, that Mercury has always been where it is now – nor Earth – nor Mars – nor Saturn
Your comment is very interesting. I did research on it and you are correct. Space is very cold, yet planets are very warm, even hot. This never made sense to me. I believe that dark matter controls the way heat is sent to a planet, no matter where it is.
oh man thats so clear that its blurry!
I am not amazed by all of this—Fact is…..Earth was seeded by people from Mars who came to that planet from Mercury billions of years ago—-Mercury was once habitable, earth was not—–Mercury began to heat up so they transplanet to Mars which in effect was dying and by the time earth became habitable,,,they then transplanted there—–And it certainly was not because of global warming but that the sun was heating up…