VIDEO OF THE WEEK: FLYING AROUND MERCURY
by Hazed
Images from NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, which orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015, have been stitched together to provide a video showing a virtual flight around the planet. It shows that Mercury’s surface is heavily cratered, with shadows near its poles that might host water ice.
Watch the video here: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171211.html