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Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day
Why this matters: new research or scientific developments with potential real-world impact.
Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the events that formed them over just one Mercurian day
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