This movie made up of frames taken by the MESSENGER space probe as it passed by Earth on its way to Mercury is pretty cool. Makes you think…
Monthly Archives: August 2005
Curiouser and curiouser
The more we learn about the solar system, the stranger the place gets. Cassini recently discovered ice volcanoes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. I like where they’re talking about 110 Kelvin being warm. At -261 F, that’s positively balmy.
Astronomers have discovered a tenth planet that’s larger than Pluto, and more than twice as far from the sun. No word on a name yet. Hopefully they can come up with something better than Quaoaoaoar.