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Mercury's Water Mystery Solved?

Updated 2026-05-24 00:35 UTC 1 source Neutral

Scientists propose that Mercury gained all of its ice deposits in a single day, challenging previous theories about the planet’s water formation.

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New Scientist
Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the events that formed them over just one Mercurian day
2026-05-22 18:00 UTC
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