New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters.
Data indicate the ice is buried beneath an unusually dark material across most of the deposits, areas where temperatures are a bit too warm for ice to be stable at the surface itself.
We’ve been told that Mercury’s too close to The Sun to have ice deposits on it, so this is a major, science-changing, discovery. NASA explains that because of Mercury’s orientation to The Sun, there are some parts of the planet that never get sunlight.
Stay tuned for more on this.
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