Researchers find surface of Mercury arose from deep inside the planet
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 18:01
in Astronomy & Space
NASA researchers have found that several volcanic deposits on Mercury's surface require mantle melting to have started close to the planet's core-mantle boundary, which lies only 400km below the planets surface and making it unique in the solar system. This is reported at the Goldschmidt conference in Yokohama, Japan.