CU-Boulder scientists detect magnesium in MESSENGER flyby of Mercury
Friday, May 1, 2009 - 11:49
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft served up another curveball to a University of Colorado at Boulder team after a second flyby of the hot inner planet Oct. 6 detected magnesium - an element created inside exploding stars and which is found in many medicine cabinets on Earth - clumped in the tenuous atmosphere of the planet...