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DoggerDan
Dec11-11, 08:56 AM
Interesting video. Nice stop-action at 2:12 min.

I don't believe in aliens, so what might this actually be?

Mercury's day side is hot enough (upwards of 800 deg F) to create some serious off-gassing. It's surface gravity is significant at 0.38 g, but it has no atmosphere to speak of.

Could this illuminated "object" merely be the front edge of a gas cloud to the sunward side of the planet? If not, what else might it be?

russ_watters
Dec11-11, 12:06 PM
Link?

D H
Dec11-11, 01:04 PM
Thread locked. We do not need a link to a crackpot video.

It's Mercury. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45571392/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TuT-fpjK0po.