Hollows on Mercury
![NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HollowsMercury.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
February 29, 2012
Credit | NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie |
---|---|
Language |
|
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury. Images taken from orbit reveal thousands of peculiar depressions at a variety of longitudes and latitudes, ranging in size from 60 feet to over a mile across and 60 to 120 feet deep.