THE HIDDEN SIDE OF HERMES AND THE BASSIN OF SKINAKAS

The discovery of an enormous crater that was spotted in Hermes from the observatory of Skinakas found in Psiloritis Mountains constitutes already a very important international scientific event in the field of Astronomy.   

Hermes is the less explored planet with a solid crust. Only 45% of its surface has been photographed by the spacecraft of NASA "Mariner" during three approaches in 1974 and 1975, while the rest  55% remains until today unexplored, since during the approaches by "Mariner" it was not getting any light from the sun! The crater was created from the collision of an enormous asteroid 4 billion yeas ago and its discovery happened in the spring of 2002 by the Russian scientist Leonid Ksanfomality, whose grandfather, by a strange coincidence, was coming from Crete!
Other observatories have also confirmed the discovery of the Russian researcher. Now scientists hope that this enormous crater progressively will reveal enough of its secrets. It took the name "Skinakas basin" and it is reported in terms of size as the third crater in our solar system after the South Pole - Atken basin in the Moon with 2500 km diameter and the Hellas basin in Aries with 2100 km diameter.

RIKI MATALLIOTAKI