Because the planet is so close to the sun ... One 2016 study suggested that Mercury's surface features can generally be divided into two groups — one consisting of older material that melted ...

One of the most notable features on Mercury is Caloris ... Mariner 10 photographed about 45 percent of the planet’s surface. A NASA mission called MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment ...

The topography (surface features) of a planet is shaped by internal forces and weathering—which in the case of Mercury is primarily from meteor impacts, since it lacks an atmosphere. Tectonic ...

The new data covers a range of features, including parts ... aspects of Mercury is its unusual surface chemistry. Unlike other rocky planets, Mercury’s surface is surprisingly poor in iron ...

That's the conclusion of a new study that looked for the kinds of features on Mercury that can form ... are not only common across the planet's surface but appear to have formed within the last ...

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 ...

“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 ...

This tectonic activity, probably formed from the planet's cooling and contracting, causes the surface to appear wrinkly. The orbiter approached Mercury ... crater and other features as the ...

She said: “Surface features are named following conventions that ... Ms Lennox believes this is because Mercury is a more recently explored planet compared to some of the others in the solar system ...