Mickey Mouse found on Mercury by NASA
There is a hidden Mickey on the planet Mercury.
Yes, that’s right on Mercury. The Messenger spacecraft, which is on a year-long science orbit of the first planet in our solar system, has captured a the hidden Mickey Mouse image on the planet, according to the NASA website.
Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington |
This seems the perfect place for the next hot Disneyland location, and the first off-world site. (Especially since Pluto’s planet status was taken away in 2006.)
“The scene above is northwest of the recently named crater Magritte, in Mercury’s south. The image is not map projected; the larger crater actually sits to the north of the two smaller ones. The shadowing helps define the striking “Mickey Mouse” resemblance, created by the accumulation of craters over Mercury’s long geologic history,” according to NASA