Used Dragon Cargo Spacecraft Will Fly Again 'Don't do anything to endanger our shipping privileges.' - Frank Herbert, 1965. Get the URL of the story, and the related sf author, and add (Story submitted ) Follow this kind of news Email | RSS | Blog It | Stumble | | Digg | Reddit |
Scroll down for more stories in the same category. Read more about Mercury's mysterious spider spot thanks to BajaB for the tip and reference for this story. She said whatever event created the spider 'is anybody's guess,' but suggested perhaps a volcanic intrusion beneath the planet's surface led to the formation of the troughs. 'It's a real mystery, a very unexpected find,' said Louise Prockter, an instrument scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which built the probe for the $446 million NASA mission.
The feature on Mercury is obviously not a ship, but scientists are perplexed by it, since there seems to be nothing else like it in the solar system. In the comic version, the ship was sighted on Mars.
It turns out that a season 3 episode of Babylon 5, Messages from Earth, first aired in February of 1996, shows a Shadow ship found on Ganymede. And one particular feature has science fiction fans rubbing their eyes. NASA's MESSENGER probe has shown a whole new side of Mercury in its flyby a few weeks ago. Mercury 'Spider' Has Fans Seeing Babylon 5 Shadow Ships
