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Forget Mars, NASA Probe Finds Ice and Organics on Mercury!
Thursday, November 29, 2012 19:18
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By: Andrew Cary
NASA has just announced that MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbitMercury, has confirmed the presence of ice covered by an unknown organic material inside craters near the planet’s north pole – two major building blocks for life!
One current theory is that the ice and organic material could have been delivered to Mercury aboard an asteroidor comet perhaps hundreds of millions of years ago. Of course there’s a lot of painstaking research involved in the findings, as well as other details about this and other theories, so you can get the full story here..
