Messenger has been sending photos of the craters on Mercury. I'm sending along two photos. One is an image of the Firdousi crater. The second photo shows how a similar "crater" can be reproduced (more or less) using electric arcing techniques in a plasma laboratory.
Clears,
Joe
Clears,
Joe
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In lumine tuo videbimus lumen.
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