For me, I guess, it's a sense of "like and yet unlike": even the far side of our moon has some dark splotches on it. Still, in looking at the pictures again today, I seemed to see more subtle detail.
I've seen that latest revision of "The Grand Tour" (and, years ago, the first version published in the early 1980s, following the Voyager flybys of Jupiter and Saturn), although I think I probably heard about the possibility of there being some ice hidden at Mercury's poles somewhere else. It reminds me of the hopes that there's also some ice at the poles of our moon, but perhaps also a tiny bit of the old visions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fiction#.22Old_Mercury.22) of a Mercury that had one side forever turned to the heat of the Sun and the other in eternal darkness...
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I've seen that latest revision of "The Grand Tour" (and, years ago, the first version published in the early 1980s, following the Voyager flybys of Jupiter and Saturn), although I think I probably heard about the possibility of there being some ice hidden at Mercury's poles somewhere else. It reminds me of the hopes that there's also some ice at the poles of our moon, but perhaps also a tiny bit of the old visions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fiction#.22Old_Mercury.22) of a Mercury that had one side forever turned to the heat of the Sun and the other in eternal darkness...