Riiight.
Space is still the final frontier, and as much as humans have studied what lies beyond our planet Earth, we still know very little, and of what we think we know, much is just plain wrong.
Even when it comes to our neighboring planets from the Solar system, we are still piecing together information to understand them better.
In a shining example of just how little we know about them, it now arises that the smallest planet in our galaxy may hold unimaginable riches beneath its surface, according to a stunning discovery by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft.
Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, may contain a 10-mile thick mantle layer of diamonds.
The dark-colored patches of graphite on Mercury’s surface have long been a scientific mystery, and suggests it may once have had ‘a carbon-rich magma ocean’.
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Riiight.
>Space is still the final frontier, and as much as humans have studied what lies beyond our planet Earth, we still know very little, and of what we think we know, much is just plain wrong.
>Even when it comes to our neighboring planets from the Solar system, we are still piecing together information to understand them better.
>In a shining example of just how little we know about them, it now arises that the smallest planet in our galaxy may hold unimaginable riches beneath its surface, according to a stunning discovery by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft.
>Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, may contain a 10-mile thick mantle layer of diamonds.
>The dark-colored patches of graphite on Mercury’s surface have long been a scientific mystery, and suggests it may once have had ‘a carbon-rich magma ocean’.
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