Organics on Mercury |
Organics on Mercury |
May 7 2009, 07:34 PM
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It's a reasonable idea that mercury has water ice in shadowed craters at it's poles, and that meteorites containing organics rain down on the planet the same as with earth. So there's probably some organics mixed in with the ice- and the ice has probably been subjected to impacts, radiation, and possibly even warming by vulcanism. So how would mercury organics compare to those found in ices on bodies in the outer solar system? Edit: A search of the web hasn't turned up much, and I wonder if organic materials would be processed differently, given that mercury is a dense rocky world near the sun, as opposed to an icy world far from it.
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