So do join in the sleuthing, here near All-Hallows Eve, with NASA -- to try to explain the strange nearly-glowing blueish pits, thus far seen nowhere else in the entire known Universe, except for hot lil' Mercury:
. . .[One theory] include[s] the idea that darker areas on Mercury’s surface are graphite deposits that, when pummeled and destroyed by solar wind, collapse and leave behind pitted, hollowed areas of only the much brighter, blue-tinged materials.
[But it is plainly true that] Mercury has. . . “ghosts” -- craters in a previous life, later shrouded by lava -- and has seen shooting stars and meteors peppering every part of its surface for billions of years. The craters they leave are named for artists and authors, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, whose namesake crater contains hollows.
Maybe one day Irving, their mentor and contemporary, will join their company. By then the true nature of Mercury’s strange hollows may be unmasked. . . .
Smiling, into the cool night air. . . with some debris from remnant tail particles from Halley's Comet likely to whiz by Earth this weekend. Heads' up!
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