Where In The Universe #40

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1. Mercury / Messenger

2. Mercury ?

3. Afghanistan at twilight.

4. Mercury. Why is your IT messed up?

5. A cratered body with signs of tectonic activity? There are several. The crater density doesn’t seem to be big enough for this to be the Moon or Mercury. Is it Enceladus? Shot during one of the close-range Cassini flybys?

6. Looks somewhat like Lacus Mortis, on the Moon, between NE Serenitatis and Hercules and Atlas craters.

   The low solar phase angle leaves me uncertain, however.

7. no no, it’s an extreme close-up of Bill Murray.

8. I’ll go with Mercury, as viewed by MESSENGER. There’s an odd regularity to the pattern of those craters that I don’t recall from the Moon.

9. It’s Mercury’s lava plains shot by MESSENGER.

10. This looks so much like mare basalt. So I’ll opt for the Moon, near side, maybe by Kaguya?

11. The Moon, the indian probe

12. Strike my first guess here: I had forgotten that the craters in Enceladus usually show rounded edges, not at all this crisp. This is rock, not ice. So it’s either Mercury or the Moon.

    Not sure at all, but since I have to choose one, I’m choosing Mercury (and Messenger).

13. The Moon. Taken by Chandrayaan 1.

14. gotta go with Mercury on this one…

15. is it Saturn’s moon, Mimas?

16. Phobos

17. IO Jupiter’s moon?

18. Sorry for the second post — IO Jupiter’s moon? Would have been Galileo
    spacecraft, hey if I’m right I have to get my extra points! LOL Happy Galaxy gazing everyone!

19. I recon the moon and maybe by Chandrayaan

20. Mercury Flyby 2, MESSENGER

21. Moon, probably Tycho in the middle. The rays wouldn’t be prominent at this angle to the light. Probably from Chandraayan (sp?).

22. I think that it’s the moon. Maybe one of the Apollo missions? :S

23. It is the moon and I will guess the Selene mission. I cannot remember the Japanese name for it.

24. I suppose it’s MESSENGER – Mercury

25. I think Nancy’s trying to trick us into thinking it’s as simple as the Moon, so I’m guessing Mercury/MESSENGER.

26. At first I thought Moon – Apollo, then Mercury – Messenger, but couldn’t it be Iapetus – Cassini?

27. I have this picture on my desktop so I know it it of Mercury by MESSENGER.

28. I think is Mercury, and the spacecraft is MESSENGER.

29. Mercury’s Horizon from MESSENGER

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0801/mercury03_messenger_big.png

30. My first guess was a picture from Mercury by Messenger.

31. My first thought was Enceladus. But I’m new.

32. its the lunar surface taken by the Japaneses satalite SELENE…I think 🙂

33. The moon. Probably from Apollo VIII

34. I think it’s Murcury.

35. Not the Moon – too much smoothness and not enough cratering. Same with Mercury in my opinion. It’s gotta be a moon of one of the outer planets. I’ll guess Ganymede.

36. hmmm..mercury messenger. One thing that might give it is the broad terminator fringe indicative of a large solar disk on the celestial body´s surface. On the moon this would be a narrower region; here it looks broad. Craters with central peaks tend to be wide so this must be a large body.

37. The rige line to the left of the craters doesn’t look like anything on the moon that we have seen pictures of before, and i don’t believe it’s Mercury, not enough craters in the picture, most of the pictures that i have seen of Mercury shows in detail a lot of craters in such a small picture, so i’m in agreement with “neoguru” it’s Ganymede

38. It’s a large impact basin imaged by MESSENGER with the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) instrument on Mercury Flyby 2.

39. Knew it was Mercury from MESSENGER straight away. It was the creater debris that gave it away.

    lol at all the ppl that were so convinced it was the moon. 😛

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