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NASA finds Cookie Monster on surface of Mercury

Xeni Jardin at 9:01 am Tue, Oct 16, 2012

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Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Institution of WA

"The superposition of younger craters on older craters (in this case two smaller craters upon the rim of an older crater) can result in landforms that appear to resemble more familiar shapes to human eyes." Definitely Cookie Monster. More: NASA.

(thanks, Miles O'Brien)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • PhosPhorious

    ‘M’ is for Mercury.  That’s good enough for me.

  • technobach

    Face on Mars, anyone?

  • awjt

    yup yupyupyupyupyup

    • ookluh

      Moooo!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001184797462 Robert Jonson

      Not Mars.

  • ocker3

    Tastes kind of gritty…

  • miasm

    om nom nom

  • http://www.facebook.com/elder.newman.1 Matt Newman

    PBS funding got cut, so the muppets have self-deported to less conservative planets.

  • Faring

    Looks more like a yip-yip to me. A a human face in profile on the bottom of the crater.