MESSENGER makes compelling case for water on planet Mercury

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Full-color image of Mercury from MESSENGER's first flyby (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. Edit)

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The MESSENGER spacecraft has made a compelling case for the presence of water in the form of ice on the surface of the Solar System's smallest and innermost planet, Mercury. The case is supported by three independent groups of evidence from different sensors aboard the Mercury orbiter.

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