delusionofgrandeur

The NASA Messenger probe has been busy sending back images and data from it’s first pass of Mercury.

One which caught my eye was this image which the NASA/John Hopkins University team are calling the ‘Phone Crater’.

I’m calling it the ‘Copyright Crater’ because I think it looks more like a 50 kilometer wide ‘copyright’ © symbol. Clearly the Mercurians are asserting their intellectual property rights to the design of the surface of Mercury. Whether NASA’s pictures constitutes copyright infringement under interplanetary law is anyone’s guess at this stage.

You can view more images of Mercury at the project’s gallery. (Just look out for Mercurian copyright lawers)

Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

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