Evidence of water ice in Mercury's polar craters

NASA's MESSENGER mission found evidence that there might be water ice in the polar craters of Mercury

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A Mosaic of images taken by NASA's mission MESSENGER, which orbited around Mercury between 2011 and 2015. The image shows what appears to be deposits of water ice inside the craters around Mercury's North Pole.

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