10/16/2014

Mercury's hidden water-ice revealed


A Nasa spacecraft has provided the first optical images of ice within shadowed craters on Mercury.

It might seem curious that the closest planet to the Sun - where temperatures soar above 400C - could host water-ice.

But some of the craters on this hothouse world are always shadowed from the Sun, turning them into cold traps.

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