Allah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercurycosmosmagazine.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down14
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercurycosmosmagazine.comAllah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square3linkfedilink
minus-squareThalion@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·4 months 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
minus-squareLydia_K@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoTIL: Mercury is salty about its environment.
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
TIL: Mercury is salty about its environment.