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Mysterious bright scars on Mercury hint the planet is not dead yet
Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnout case, a small rocky world that cooled quickly and then froze in ...
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Bright streaks on Mercury suggest that it's not a dead planet, but geologically active
Learn about the bright streaks that may represent recent geological activity on Mercury, which has been considered a dead ...
Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...
Mercury is a planet that just doesn't make sense. It's incredibly small yet hosts a relatively massive core. Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of magnetic fields surrounding Mercury the closest planet to the sun. | Credit: ...
Far smaller and closer to the Sun than it should be, Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission arriving in 2026 might ...
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