Messenger Data Show Volcanoes, Shrinkage Shaped Mercury
Credit: NASA/APL
The first batch of scientific papers from the Jan. 14 flyby of NASA’s Messenger (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) reports the discovery of huge volcanoes on the closest planet to the Sun, and settles once and for all the question of what produces Mercury’s magnetic field...
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