The word glacier conjures swaths of brilliant ice surveyed by bighorn sheep or holiday skiers. Planetary exploration has expanded our view, taking in the rock glaciers of Mars and even the vast nitrogen glacier of Pluto’s heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio. They’ve all got one thing in common: they’re cold. But now, researchers at Tucson’s Planetary ScienceContinue reading “Are glaciers on Mercury a link to life?”
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