minus-squareThalion@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercurylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·26 days agoTl;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 linkfedilink
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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