pulse//flex: Surface of Mercury, photographed by MESSENGER, 6th September 2009.
This image centred around 20°S 89°W. The crater at top centre is Sullivan (for Louis Sullivan, American architect and “father of the skyscraper”); just to the right is Futabatei (for Japanese writer Hasegawa Tatsunosuke, who derived his pen name Futabatei Shimei from the imprecation “kutabatte shimee” (“drop dead”)); at bottom right is Matisse (for, of course, French painter Henri Matisse).
Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/CIW. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.

pulse//flex: Surface of Mercury, photographed by MESSENGER, 6th September 2009.

This image centred around 20°S 89°W. The crater at top centre is Sullivan (for Louis Sullivan, American architect and “father of the skyscraper”); just to the right is Futabatei (for Japanese writer Hasegawa Tatsunosuke, who derived his pen name Futabatei Shimei from the imprecation “kutabatte shimee” (“drop dead”)); at bottom right is Matisse (for, of course, French painter Henri Matisse).

Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/CIW. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.

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