Mercury Ice at the Poles (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Mercury Ice at the Poles

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Despite Mercury's daytime Vulcan heat, there is permanent ice at the poles, according to data and images from a NASA probe that visited Mercury in 2011.

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NASA / MESSENGER

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