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[Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ. APL, Arizona State Univ., CIW]

1 posted on 04/18/2015 5:27:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Greatly resembles Copernicus and Tsiolkovsky, on our noble Moon, with a bit of the effusion volcanism of Schrödinger basin infilling the floor. All of these “late” morphologies, though this structure seems more weathered.


3 posted on 04/18/2015 5:54:00 AM PDT by Prospero (omnis caro fenum)
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To: SunkenCiv
I think the repeating, symmetrical-square architecture is proof of intelligent design.
5 posted on 04/18/2015 6:07:52 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: SunkenCiv
... its sunlit central peaks, terraced crater walls, and frozen sea of impact melt ...

Almost makes me want to move there!

6 posted on 04/18/2015 6:32:16 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: SunkenCiv; Swordmaker
An alternative view of Mercurial crater formation from the folks at Thunderbolts -

https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/10/27/electric-mercury/


7 posted on 04/18/2015 6:45:42 AM PDT by shibumi ("Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way")
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To: SunkenCiv
"unable to counter orbital perturbations"

Please. Not in front of the astronomers.

9 posted on 04/18/2015 12:19:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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