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The Enigma Files 247all directions sometimes. It must have differentgravities, depending upon which side you are on. It’sbeautiful—God, it’s beautiful....I see land masses, butthey look waterwashed, as if the water just twirlsaround the planet all the time....It seems a lovely littleplanet. There are differences in land masses, in a waymountainous, but not too mountainous. Everythinglooks chewed down, I guess because of the land tides.I’d say that the planet is characterized by sort of a lowkeyedelectric magnetic splendor. That’s all. 6Swann’s detailed description of Mercury was thought tobe a novel oddity by those few astronomers who read the report.After all, it was established dogma in scientific circlesthat Mercury had no atmosphere, no magnetic field, and noionosphere.The established view of the planet was overturned lessthan a month later when the Mariner 10 flyby began producingman’s first close-up photographic view of Mercury.Science News reported:Until last week, the majority of planetologists felt,with good reason, that Mercury was a pretty nothingplanet. No atmosphere (the solar wind would blow itaway), no magnetic field (the planet’s slow rotationwould not create the dynamo effect necessary to sustainone), no ionosphere (no magnetic field to trap theionized particles), no moons. All in all, a dull world.Now it is “strange,” “startling,” “spooky,” and “fascinating,”all thanks to a few days of observations byMariner 10. The first spacecraft ever to fly by Mercuryhas taken close-up photos which reveal a heavily

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