The mystery of Mercury has been unraveling since 1974, but until now, the planet’s surface remained blurry and unclear. With ...

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Although Mercury is a largely dark planet, its younger features (or more recent scarring) appear brighter on the surface. Scientists aren’t quite sure what Mercury is made of, but material that ...

BepiColombo pulled off its fourth gravity assist of Mercury on Wednesday, approaching the planet’s cratered surface at the closest ... reveal Mercury’s unique features. Bepicolombo Captures ...

Scientific studies reveal a 9-mile diamond layer at Mercury's core-mantle boundary, influencing heat transfer and the magnetic field. Graphite and Diamond both are isomers of carbon. In graphite ...

“Mercury shows us: Don't discount [planets] close to the sun,” Domingue ... less Mercury has no rain or wind to carve the land, surface features like hollows can only be formed from other ...

Solomon explains that Mercury also has distinguishing tectonic features ... if they want to see a new crater on the planet’s surface and compare it to the older craters.

Mercury’s surface might not be quite so terra firma ... In the new study, a close analysis of features at the planet’s north pole suggests similar sculpting done by salts.

Scientists have revealed that Mercury's north pole might ... hidden beneath the surface of the otherwise uninhabitable planet. The researchers even say that there are comparable areas on Earth ...

As the interior of Mercury continues to cool, the planet contracts, and the surface starts to wrinkle ... the interplay of these geological features, the team “calculated that the majority ...

He is co-leader of the European Space Agency's Mercury Surface and Composition Working ... He is author of Planet Mercury - from Pale Pink Dot to Dynamic World (Springer, 2015), Moons: A Very ...