NASA Captures Mickey Mouse Silhouette on Mercury

 By 
Stan Schroeder
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NASA Captures Mickey Mouse Silhouette on Mercury
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The image above is probably familiar to everyone who's ever been to Disney World. This particular Mickey Mouse impression, however, has been caught on planet Mercury by NASA's Messenger spacecraft.

This particular crater configuration is in Mercury's south, near a crater named Magritte. "The shadowing helps define the striking 'Mickey Mouse' resemblance, created by the accumulation of craters over Mercury's long geologic history," says NASA in the photo description on Flickr.

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