"You wake up in the morning at about 5 o'clock ... and then you watch thesun rise and this extremely peaceful and serene atmosphere and then you just lookatthesun coming like a ball of fire, rising from the sand and then coming up, " recalls Jibunoh.
Opportunities to photograph Mercury from space are also limited because light sensitive equipment, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, are not allowed to lookat objects close to theSun, such as Mercury or Venus.