NASA ’s Messenger infinite probe lastly sent back its first high - res images of Mercury ’s dark side , and they ’re astonishingly sparkling . Mercury ’s dark side is really “ elucidate obliquely ” by the sun . Messenger is giving us our first veridical view of Mercury ’s Caloris basin , and may assist to solvemysterieslike why Mercury has a magnetic field when Venus and Mars do n’t , and what lurks in its shaded diametric regions . Click through for the full image .
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