First Rock From the Sun has Ice

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and NASAS MESSANGER spacecraft has made a strange discovery. It has found evidence of frozen water. Mercury itself cannot support life, but this finding clues about how water and other vital ingredients ended up on earth. In the early 1990s, Earth based radar measurements hinted at the presence of ice when they found mysterious bright spots near Mercury's poles. The new studies prove that the spots are water ice.

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