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NASA Spacecraft Finds New Mercury Water Ice Evidence
Instruments aboard NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft studying the planet Mercury have provided compelling support for the long-held hypothesis the planet harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials within its permanently shadowed polar craters.
“About the last thing you would expect on a planet so close to the sun is water ice,” said Matthew Siegler, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and an author on one of three papers published today in Science Express. “But due to Mercury’s low tilt, craters near the poles can remain in year-round shadow and be ridiculously cold.” …. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
2012-11-30 00:39:41
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