Massive lava flows may have given rise to two distinct rock types on Mercury’s surface.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013. By analyzing Mercury’s rocky surface, scientists have been able to partially reconstruct the planet’s history over billions of years. Now, drawing upon the chemical composition of rock features on the planet’s surface, scientists at MIT have proposed that Mercury may have harbored a large, roiling ocean of magma very early in its history, shortly after its…
