Mystery Rising Within Mercury

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @04:30PM from the rising-mecury dept.

astroengine writes "Something besides volcanic eruptions and asteroid and comet impacts has sculpted the surface of Mercury — an unknown process, possibly still going on today, that causes the ground to swell from the inside out. The evidence, collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft currently orbiting the innermost planet, is scattered all over Mercury, including a dramatic finding that half of the floor of the biggest crater on the planet has been raised above the walls. The MESSENGER team's findings were announced at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston on Wednesday and will be published in this week's Science."

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Re:Mystery Rising Within Mercury? by tywjohn · 2012-03-21 17:13 · Score: -1, Redundant

http://xkcd.com/1022/ So it has come to this...
Re:Mystery Rising Within Mercury? by snowgirl · 2012-03-21 23:41 · Score: -1, Redundant

So it has come to this.
Obligatory XKCD

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