minus-squareThalion@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercurylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 months agoTl;Dr they’re salt glaciers, which is still interesting because scientists didn’t think something like salt would still exist on Mercury at its age with such an environment linkfedilink
minus-squareThalion@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercurylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months agodeleted by creator linkfedilink
Tl;Dr they’re salt glaciers, which is still interesting because scientists didn’t think something like salt would still exist on Mercury at its age with such an environment