We finally
got closer to the craters! We actually visited two to see the possible
difference in height. The first we saw was supposedly “only” 100 metres high.
We actually saw it from the outside, which means the 100 metres was when we
looked down, scary! Looked more like dunes than actual mountains though. The
second was actually almost 2 km high and we saw that one from the inside of the
crater. That means we were actually facing the mountain and let me tell you
that that was something. It was like
facing a giant wall of grey sand and rocks. And it doesn’t get to that height
in a small incline. No! It goes small incline for a hundred metre or so (I’m
not good with distance) and then bam! It’s like one of those exponential graphs
we saw in muggle mathematics, the one that never touches the axis. It just
rises suddenly and keeps going forever (or 3 km in this case). Reminded me of
that crater in Arizona, but way much higher! It was quite the sight. We also
visited a crater that had one section of it always in the shade. No sun ever
lit that area. And in it, there was ice, under something else of which I forgot
the name. They had a small section cut so we could see the dark surface on top
and 15 cm below, the ice. They say if the muggles ever want to colonize
Mercury, these areas would probably be the best for them.