Can it actually be right...

...that I haven't made a single post in over four months. I'm a huge embarrassment, blogging-wise. Here is Mercury from Messenger. Let's see if I can keep the blogging up this time. Let me also mention that I am learning Italian, and am very pleased that the weekdays are all planet names + day. Or, Roman gods, but I'm a psudo-astronomer so I have my take on it.

All Known Solar System Bodies

i got this from cosmicvariance, just found it too cool. full-sized image here. (image credit: here)