Mercury, As Never Seen Before

Mercury, As Never Seen Before

The article is about the Nasa's Messenger going to see mercury from a closer view, the trip was made on January 14.

This was really impresive, because not a lot of trips to the space go to "visit" Mercury. They were really, really close to the planet (that is the closest to the sun) and they were able to see the crater, and even though there was an expedition to this planet a long time ago, the sun iluminated another part of the planet, so when they went the last time they took pictures but were not able so see as good as this time, because of the light they could see different features from the planet that they didn't know before, they saw that the texture was different, they were able so see more about this planet.

They also saw that Caloris basin that is a crater in Mercury is one of the biggest from all the solar system. Other thing they saw is that in the atmosphere of Mercury that is really thin there is sodium, that is also in the Earth.

Other thing that the expedition did was the topographic measurements of this planet.

I think that is really interesting that people do this kind of expeditions, to know more about the other planets that are in the same solar system as our planet, because for me it's really interesting getting to know how all the planets are different and how they can have some similarities, and we just can know this if expeditions like this one are done, so I really like that they went there, and that they researched more about this planet, that not everyone know about because I think people talk more about planets like Mars, thinking if there is life there, or that water was found there, but how can we know about the other planets if there are no expeditions to research them, and I know it's difficult because of a lot of things, like just going out of our planet, and also because of the positions of the planets, that Mercury is the closer than any other planet to the sun so this makes it more difficult, but I really like all the research and pictures that was done.

by: Marcela Murillo Trujano