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TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercury (cosmosmagazine.com)
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[โ€“] Thalion@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tl;Dr they're salt glaciers, which is still interesting because scientists didn't think something like salt would still exist on Mercury at its age with such an environment

[โ€“] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

TIL: Mercury is salty about its environment.