messenger

Technically this week should really be awesome. It is spring break! But there is so much cold wind blowing through the Magic Valley that unless you took a real vacation you are just stuck inside with your kids (probably going insane).

We’ve made contact with Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. This photograph—which was taken yesterday, March 29, 2011 at 5:20am EDT—shows the surface of the innermost planet of the Solar System with unprecedented detail. It was taken by NASA’s Messenger, the first human-made spaceship to orbit this tiny, battered, and scorched rock...