Mercury ice water discovery bodes well for alien life search (Photo: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Institution of Washington / National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory) The discovery of huge amounts of water ice and possible organic compounds on the heat-blasted planet Mercury suggests that the raw materials necessary for life as we know it may be common throughout the solar system, researchers say. Read the complete story.
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Mercury ice water discovery bodes well for alien life search

(Photo: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Institution of Washington / National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory)

The discovery of huge amounts of water ice and possible organic compounds on the heat-blasted planet Mercury suggests that the raw materials necessary for life as we know it may be common throughout the solar system, researchers say.

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