Age constraints of Mercury's polar deposits suggest recent delivery of ice.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.027
Abstract: Surface ice at the poles of Mercury appears as several-m-thick deposits that are composed of nearly pure water. We provide new age estimates of Mercury's polar deposits from combined analyses of Poisson statistics and direct… read more here.
Keywords: mercury polar; polar deposits; age; age constraints ... See more keywords