New Scientist
UK · 5 hrs ago
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Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day
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New research suggests Mercury's polar ice deposits, which are surprisingly abundant given the planet's proximity to the Sun, may have formed in a single Mercurian day through a specific astronomical event or process.
Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day
Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the events that formed them over just one Mercurian day
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