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The MESSENGER mission investigates Mercury's volcanic deposits to understand how the planet retained volatiles despite its proximity to the Sun. The project employs the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer to analyze the composition of these deposits and their implications for Mercury's formation and thermal evolution.
The MESSENGER mission imaged explosive volcanic deposits on Mercury: a surprising result because Mercury’s proximity to the Sun should have depleted its constituents in volatiles.
Mercury’s large core suggests its rocky shell was stripped by some process, which most likely would have removed its volatiles too.
The volatiles’ species, how Mercury retained them, and how they were concentrated in Mercury’s magmas are unknown.
Mercury’s volcanic plains formed ≥3.5 billion years ago, before magma asc…
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