Friday, 30 September 2011
Planet Mercury Full of Strange Surprises, NASA Spacecraft Reveals
Mercury is not just hellishly hot but apparently covered in brimstone. A vast part of the planet is covered with dried lava -- enough to bury the state of Texas under 4 miles of the stuff, scientists say.These and other strange discoveries about Mercury were announced in seven papers released in the Sept. 30 issue of the journal Science, a trove of knowledge from NASA's Messenger probe, covering everything from odd landscape to the planet's magnetic core.Messenger, which stands for "Mercury
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