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NASA announced Thursday that its Messenger probe has discovered new evidence of water ice on Mercury.

In the announcement, Sean Solomon, principal investigator for the Mercury Messenger program, said the probe had uncovered new evidence that deposits in permanently shadowed regions of Mercury’s poles is water ice. The ice is found predominantly in impact craters, according to data obtained by Messenger.

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Water Mercury

NASA images showing Mercury’s north polar region.
The red areas are permanently shadowed, and the
yellow are radar bright spots that are now thought
to be deposits of water ice.

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