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This image provided by NASA is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's innermost planet, Mercury. The image was captured early this morning, at 5:20 a.m. EDT,Tuesday March 29, 2011. The dominant rayed crater in the upper portion of the image is Debussy. The bottom portion of this image is near Mercury's south pole and includes a region of Mercury's surface not previously seen by spacecraft. On March 17, 2011 (March 18, 2011, UTC), MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury. (AP Photo/NASA)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, heavy smoke rises over the Tajoura area, some 30 km east of Tripoli, Libya, after an airstrike on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. (Xinhua/Hamza Turkia)
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Carolina Hurricanes' Tuomo Ruutu (15), of Finland, scores a goal against Washington Capitals goalie Semyon Vallamov (1) during a shootout of an NHL hockey game in Washington, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Hurricanes won 3-2 in a shootout. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin, left, of Russia, reacts after scoring during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Caroina Hurricanes at the Verizon Center in Washington, on Friday, March 11, 2011. Washington center Marcus Johansson (90) looks on. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Construction near Half Street Southeast can be seen near the center field entrance of Nationals Park. Monument Realty is the primary developer along the street. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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"There's nothing on this show fake," says one of the miners on the reality TV series "Coal." The show debuts Wednesday.
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Eric John King was convicted of fatally shooting two men at a Phoenix convenience store two days after Christmas in 1989. (Associated Press)
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A resident of Japan's Oshima island pushes a wheelbarrow past the destroyed port as he tries to salvage belongings from his home on Monday, March 28, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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A Delta Air Lines jet takes off from Boston's Logan International Airport. United and Continental airlines started the push for another fare increase last week and were joined by Delta, American and US Airways. But low-cost airlines didn't go along. By Monday morning, US Airways was the only one of the major airlines that still had the higher fares. (AP Photo)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Britney Spears' new album "Femme Fatale" follows a period of relative stability for the 29-year-old pop star, who has lived the musical equivalent of several lifetimes in a career that has been burnt to the ground and resurrected at regular intervals.
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A survivor of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan cuts woods for fire for warmth at a shelter in the devastated town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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U.S. cargo planes land at Sendai airport Sunday with supplies of fresh water for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. American divers are helping clear underwater debris off Hachinohe to permit ships to pass. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. cargo planes land at Sendai airport Sunday with supplies of fresh water for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. American divers are helping clear underwater debris off Hachinohe to permit ships to pass.
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** FILE ** An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 is pushed back from a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state in June 2009. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama, right, huddles with his aide during a press conference on the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, in Tokyo on Friday March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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In this photo released by Democratic Voice of Burma, officials stand in front of a building destroyed by an earthquake in Tarlay, Shan state, Myanmar, Friday, March 25, 2011. The Thursday night quake, measured at a magnitude 6.8 by the U.S. Geological Survey, toppled homes in northeastern Myanmar and killed dozens of people. (AP Photo/DVB, Alinyaung)
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Burial is held in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed city of Higashimatsushima, northern Japan, on Friday, March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Medical workers in protective gear gather around an ambulance which arrived at a hospital in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, carrying two workers from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after they stepped into contaminated water while laying electrical cables in one unit Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Jun Yasukawa) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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The crew of the USS Ronald Reagan swabs the aircraft carrier's deck to remove radiation fallout after 10 days of delivering supplies to survivors of the earthquake and tsunami. (Associated Press)
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A resident walks between the rubble caused by the March 11 tsunami at Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
