We Interupt this Blog.

This is not this weeks regular post but I had to write about it. This is the first picture that NASA's MESSENGER probe has sent back from the orbit of the planet Mercury. Though not the first probe sent to Mercury, MESSENGER, only the second in thirty-five years is the first to go into orbit. And send us pictures of this quality of this least explored planet. On it's way MESSENGER also did flybys of the Sun, Earth, and Venus Giving us some of the first pictures of Earth from deep space since the Apollo Program. Since space exploration doesn't get the front page too much these days I just thought I'd show you what NASA does with less money than the military spends in a day.