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Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds
Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that a 10-mile-thick diamond mantle may lie beneath ...
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Mercury may be coated in a layer of diamonds ‘kilometres thick’
may be harbouring a layer of diamond beneath its crust that is kilometres thick. The theory formed thanks to NASA’s MESSENGER ...
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See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraft
A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. When you purchase ...
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Mercury Planetary Science
Additionally, studies of Mercury's crust and lithosphere have utilized high-resolution gravity and topography data from the MESSENGER mission. By analyzing the relationship between gravity and ...