Boing Boing » planetary http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 17:03:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 NASA finds Cookie Monster on surface of Mercury http://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/nasa-finds-cookie-monster-on-s.html http://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/nasa-finds-cookie-monster-on-s.html#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:01:52 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=187722

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.

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