Comments on: Watermelon planet

By: MESSENGER: Three days out from Mercury | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:38:55 +0000

[...] spacecraft MESSENGER is just three days away from its third encounter with Mercury. The past two have been nothing short of frakkin’ amazing, so I’m really looking forward to this [...]

By: The colors of Mercury | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

The colors of Mercury | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:35:21 +0000

[...] from the second MESSENGER flyby of Mercury is coming in; NASA held a telephone press conference today to release some new, [...]

By: Flybies to the Planets « IBY’s Island Universe

Flybies to the Planets « IBY’s Island Universe — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:21:06 +0000

[...] surface before! So this is an exciting flyby, and new things about the planet could be uncovered. BA has this covered too, and provides more interesting information than I ever could with my meager [...]

By: Mercurio, el planeta melón « Blogomás

Mercurio, el planeta melón « Blogomás — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:35:44 +0000

[...] Traducción y adaptación de: Bad Astronomy [...]

By: IBY

IBY — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:31:46 +0000

Wow, it does kind of look like a watermelon. But then again, it could look like a lot of other stuffs too.

By: Contro il Furto Astronomico, Godiamoci il Pianeta Cocomero « Maurizio Morabito

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:27:37 +0000

[...] bella foto di un lato finora sconosciuto di Mercurio, ribattezzato dall’astronomo e scrittore Phil Plait come “Il Pianeta Cocomero”: Mercurio il Pianeta [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:28:15 +0000

Woo hooo! That’s very cool. So SHARP too.
What a great time we live in. The economy may be falling apart, but then it seems almost every month there is something new discovered or photograped from space to realize that are problems here on Earth are just nothing on the big scale of the solar system.
Snow on Mars, Rovers still going, Opportunity starting a 12 mile road trip, Cassini’s upcoming 16 mile pass over Enceladus, Rosetta passing Stein….I can hardly get work done with all the daily discoveries!
Let’s hope the next Mars rover doesn’t get cancelled…..