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Mercury's Interior, Surface, and Surrounding Environment - Latest Discoveries (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
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Mercury's Interior, Surface, and Surrounding Environment - Latest Discoveries (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Astronomy
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This SpringerBrief details the MESSENGER Mission, the findings of
which present challenges to widely held conventional views and
remaining mysteries surrounding the planet. The work answers the
question of why Mercury is so dense, and the implications from
geochemical data on its planetary formation. It summarizes imaging
and compositional data from the terrestrial planet surface
processes and explains the geologic history of Mercury. It also
discusses the lack of southern hemisphere coverage. Our
understanding of the planet Mercury has been in a transitional
phase over the decades since Mariner 10. The influx of new data
from the NASA MESSENGER Mission since it was inserted into the
orbit of Mercury in March of 2011 has greatly accelerated that
shift. The combined compositional data of relatively high volatiles
(S, K), relatively low refractories (Al, Ca), and low crustal iron,
combined with an active, partially molten iron rich core, has major
implications for Mercury and Solar System formation. From a
scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, this presents a
comprehensive overview of the discoveries from the ten-year
MESSENGER mission.
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