Кипр, как он есть!

[V.B.]

Хм, а почему там так быстро сменяются фотки?

[Дмитрий Виницкий]

Хм, а почему там так быстро сменяются фотки?

надо у гугла спросить

[Дмитрий Виницкий]

Mercury: The Solar System's smallest planet may once have been as large as Earth



The barren landscape found in parts of Cyprus, like this ancient salt lake, could hold clues to the origin of the planet Mercury (Credit: Nicola Mari)

From its "absurd" core to the baffling chemical composition of its surface, Mercury is full of surprises – not least the planet's origins. But some answers could be held in rocks found in Cyprus.

Curiosity has killed many an explorer, and Nicola Mari feared he was to be the next.
Driving around Cyprus's remotest mountains, Mari had relied on his cell phone for directions. But as the light of the day faded, so did his phone battery – and he found himself stuck in the middle of nowhere with little idea of the way back to his lodgings. "I'd travelled for more than 50km (31 miles) without seeing another vehicle," he says.
He thought he could remember the way to an inn, where he might refill his stomach, engine, and phone battery – but having arrived there, he found it was deserted. A lucky turn eventually led him to another establishment, but he admits to fearing for his life on those lonely mountain roads. "I made some bad calculations," he says.
Fortunately, his mission was not in vain. Mari is a planetary geologist at the University of Pavia in Italy who studies ways that our neighbours in the solar system formed and evolved. For his PhD, he had studied Martian lava flows. This time, his sights were set on Mercury – by way of Cyprus. His aim was to find a certain kind of rock, named "boninite", that is thought to bear an uncanny similarity to the rocks found on Mercury – a supposition which, if right, could be a clue to the planet's unique origins.