TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercury (cosmosmagazine.com)
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 19:17 next collapse

thehonestscientist.com/electric-universe/

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Thalion@lemmy.ca on 20 Dec 19:23 collapse

Tl;Dr they’re salt glaciers, which is still interesting because scientists didn’t think something like salt would still exist on Mercury at its age with such an environment

Lydia_K@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 00:36 collapse

TIL: Mercury is salty about its environment.