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Water Ice on Mercury?
December 2, 2012 | NASA

“New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters.” Quoted from the NASA press release.

Image at right: Permanently shadowed craters in the northern hemisphere of Mercury.


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