NASA: Closest planet to sun, Mercury, harbors ice

  • By MARCIA DUNN
    Associated Press
  • Saturday, December 1th, 2012
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AP photo This photo made available by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington shows a 68-mile-diameter crater, large indentation at center, in the north polar region of Mercury which has been shown to harbor water ice, thanks to measurements by the Messenger spacecraft.

AP photo This photo made available by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington shows a 68-mile-diameter crater, large indentation at center, in the north polar region of Mercury which has been shown to harbor water ice, thanks to measurements by the Messenger spacecraft.