All About Space - UK (2020-02)

Mercury

MERC

Scientists are still busy analysing data from the

MESSENGER mission – and it has plenty of surprises

ReportedbyAndrewMay

WHAT’S NEW AT

Ice on a

hotplanet

A view of the area

around Mercury’s north

pole, with regions that

permanently lie in

shadow shown in red and

suspected traces of ice

shown in yellow.

Kandinsky

Prokofiev

© NASA