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Mercury's Magnetic Field Generated by Iron 'Snow'

Mercury is the smallest, most mysterious and closest planet to the Sun. In fact this so called 'mystery' is associated to Mercury also being the least studied planet in the solar system, which may seem kind of strange given the fact that it is relatively close to Earth as compared to the other planets beyond Mars' orbit. The first spacecraft to visit Mercury was NASA's Mariner 10 which, after three fly-bys during the 1970s, has detected the planet's magnetic field and ma... Read »
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