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Mercury May Have Molten Hot Magma at its Core
mattatwork writes "According to ScienceDaily, NASA has come to the conclusion that the planet Mercury may have a molten core after all, based on high-precision planetary radar readings. You may (or may not) remember the Mariner 10 probe making 3 passes by Mercury between March 29th, 1974, September 21st 1974 and March 16, 1975."
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Mercury May Have Molten Hot Magma at its Core
Excellent. This means they'll be able to serve McDonald's apple pies when they put the first restaurant on Mercury.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Buy the new Mercury Bar, with a molten caramel core!
No more hard frozen Mars Bars. Let the chocolatey warmth flow through you.
...does is have sharks with friggin' lazer beams attached to their head.
As opposed to solid, cold magma?
I suppose the longer Mercury can hold out as an active planet, the longer will should last as one... assuming we make it that far...
I do not know much about this, but is it possible Mercury would always have a molten core just do the extremes it endures (gravity, radiation, cosmic whatever, etc). If true, then my above statement is holds no value.
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"Magma: Molten rock beneath the surface of the earth." http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+magma "Molten hot magma" If it's magma, it's molten, molten rock is pretty much definately hot.
it is quite odd that mercury has a liquid metal core but a very weak magnetic field- planetary magnetic fields form when currents flow through a liquid core- the rotating core sustains the field as on earth, the sun and jupiter but mercury's is very weak- apparently it isn't rotating much
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
This is compared with the recent discovery of mud-like sludge in the core of Uranus.
You know, Scott. I've been a frickin' evil doctor for 30 frickin' years, OK? Cut me some "frickin'" slack. You forget Scott. We're in a volcano. We're surrounded by liquid hot magma.
The headline is a attempt at quoting Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers series. Unfortunately, the Dr. Evil's phrase is "liquid hot magma" not "molten hot magma". So, they botched the joke.
The sun is hot! and this just in... Earth has... omg. it has WATER!
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What is magma but liquid rock?
What is water but liquid ice?
If I was on a planet far awa frmo the sune, all the ice would be no different then rock. In fact, On that planet the rock could be magma at 0 Centigrade.
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Any conclusions about magnetic fields of planets have to take the basic requirements into account. A planet with a molten silicon core would not have a magnetic field no matter how it rotated. I agree that the mass of Mercury might be consistent with an metal core but that doesn't prove that it has one.
solid cold magma?
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Love 'em. Love 'em soo much! Please keep them coming. Er, if magma is molten rock under the surface of the Earth, how the hell did it get to Mercury?!
Shouldn't the title be, "Mercury May Mask a Molten Middle"?
And what's the relation between mercury Hot Magma Core and my brand-new sun glasses? I don't get it...
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"Molten hot magma"
The tri-oxymoron-award of the day goes to...
they'll be telling us Mars also has sharks with frickin' lazer beams on their heads....
I was much more amazed until I remembered that Mercury was a planet.
Let's hold Mercury ransom for... one million dollars!
of course it is hot inside, it is, as are all other planets, growing from the inside. (!)
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You're a pretty good example of how not teaching basic logic and how to avoid fallacious reasoning in school are so desperately needed. I can't imagine how you came to think the above argument (such as it is) has any meaning, but I truly pity anybody who has to rely upon your reasoning to reach any sound conclusion.
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Too bad it's all the way on Mercury, but after you do the attunement quest you'll be able to make it directly from Blackrock Mountain. That won't be too bad.
...that a trailing slash crept into the Mercury 10 link. Oops.
The corrected link to the Wikipedia article: the Mariner 10 probe
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The value of Mercury-based real estate has sky-rocketed today,
as evil geniuses the world over vie for the best plots on what seems
likely to become the solar systems new secret evil lair 'hot spot'.
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I'm just wondering.
does it have a Blackwing Lair?
Your "logic" makes about as much sense as:
Meat rots; flies always show up when meat rots; therefore, flies are spontaneously created out of rotting meat!
This is one pre-natural-selection "theory" on the origin of certain species. Another has frogs spontaneously growing out of lily pads (we'll ignore the fact that nobody ever actually SAW a frog grow out of a plant).
Jumping to conclusions and making unrelated claims are a poor excuse for discussion. I suggest you enroll in a logic course at your local college.
mercurial?
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Thats one hot core.
I wonder, would it be less hot, if Mercury had dual core???
You may (or may not) remember the Mariner 10 probe making 3 passes by Mercury between March 29th, 1974, September 21st 1974 and March 16, 1975."
Sure I remember young whipper snappers! And then the talkies came and Vaudeville was dead..
I'm pretty sure I'm an "old man" here and I was less than a year old then so I can't say I remember.
I remember those Mariner missions very well. I remember them just as well as the last time I got laid. Better, actually, since the Mariner missions were more recent.
The memories are a lot alike for me. I was like a little spacecraft, looking for my target in the darkness of the space under the blankets. My goal was huge. Literally, she was the size of Mercury. And she was hot too. Sweaty hot. Uncomfortable and slippery sweaty hot. I snuck a little camera in there and took some blurry low resolution pictures of something that looked like a crater. At least I didn't enter a permanent solar orbit.
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I'm very dissapointed by this news. I was hoping that it had a nougat core or was full of toys and candy.
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...thinking to myself "What could possibly lie at Mercury's core". I went through a mental checklist. Cheese? No. Highly compacted fluffy bunnies? No. A sphere of pure neutronium? No. And then I got to hot molten magma and I thought "yup, it's gonna be pretty hot down there and Mercury is probably made of rock, so that sounds right." And guess what, now some scientists are saying the same thing. Amazing how far you can get just thinking in your armchair.
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