Mercury's Surface Dominated By Volcanism And Iron-deficiency

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Fri, 07/04/2008 - 18:15

Multispectral data on the composition of rock untis of the surface of Mercury show a widespread role for volcanism and an apparent deficiency in iron in the rocks' minerals.


 

More related items

Iron 'Snow' Helps Maintain Mercury's Magnetic Field, Scientists...
New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like...

Bloodless Worm Sheds Light On Human Blood, Iron Deficiency
Using a lowly bloodless worm, researchers have discovered an important clue to how iron carried in human blood is absorbed and transported into the...

A Genetic Cause For Iron Deficiency
The discovery of a gene for a rare form of inherited iron deficiency may provide clues to iron deficiency in the general population -- particularly...

Mercury's shifting, rolling past
Patterns of scalloped-edged cliffs or lobate scarps on Mercury's surface are thrust faults that are consistent with the planet shrinking and cooling...

Biochemistry: Board Review Series
BRS Biochemistry embodies the popular BRS format of succinct outline review of content followed by approximately 500 USMLE-style questions with...

Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for...
Werner Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle” challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert...

Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
Fresh insights into aspects of Einstein we don't usually consider: his mistakes and the role they played in the discovery of his theories.Although...


 

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
science-nature.marc8.com