October 17, 2014

The Kandinsky crater on Mercury photographed by the Messenger space probe (Image ASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)

An article published in the journal “Geology” illustrates the discovery of water ice on the planet Mercury made ​​thanks to NASA’s Messenger (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) space probe. Several pictures show frozen water and other materials in permanently shadowed craters near Mercury’s north pole.