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NASA

24th September 2010, 18:40

Scientists from Boston University's Center for Space Physics (CSP) reported the presence of a comet-like tail in images of the planet Mercury taken by STEREO, in a presentation given September 22, 2010 at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) meeting in Rome.

http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/mercurytail/figure2_merc.jpg

http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/mercurytail/Mercury_figure3.jpg

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UKIPster

28th September 2010, 22:05

I was always careful to use rounded scissors to cut the Magnesium strip from the roll. Then when i burnt it with the bunsen burner it looked just like this. WOW go Figure I never even knew that it was just like Mercury and stuff. Imagine my surprise I thought that was all about thermometers and stuff. How wrong was I?