Breaking: Water Ice Confirmed On Mercury

Daytime on Mercury's equator can break the 800-degree mark, but nonetheless there's long been speculation that the first planet's poles might be icy. A new analysis of neutron-spectrometry data returned by the Messenger probe confirms the hypothesis: there's ice in some polar craters! Time to build a Mercury colony. [Science via New York Times]

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