Mercury is a fascinating planet. As our Suns' closest orbiting body, it experiences extremes of heat and cold, has the most eccentric orbit of any Solar planet, and an orbital resonance that makes a single day last as long as two years. But since the arrival of the MESSENGER probe, we have learned some new and interesting things about the planet's geological history as well. For example, images that were recently obtained by the NASA spacecraft revealed previously undetected landforms - small fa...
Mercury is a fascinating planet. As our Suns' closest orbiting body, it experiences extremes of heat and cold, has the most eccentric orbit of any Solar planet, and an orbital resonance that makes a single day last as long as two years. But since the arrival of the MESSENGER probe, we have learned some new and interesting things about the planet's geological history as well. For example, images that were recently obtained by the NASA spacecraft revealed previously undetected landforms - small fa...
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