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Allah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercury

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TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercury

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Allah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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Mercury, Eris glacier make scientists rethink habitable zone
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Glaciers hold mysteries and maybe even the answers to some of the questions about how a planet might become habitable.
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    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

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      TIL: Mercury is salty about its environment.

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    https://thehonestscientist.com/electric-universe/

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