The contrast between the colors of the Caloris basin floor and those of the surrounding plains indicate that the composition of Mercury's surface is variable. Many additional geological features with intriguing color signatures can be identified in this image.
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; Mercury is a terrestrial planet, like like all of the 4 inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. It's the smallest of them, and has a diameter of only 4,879 km at its equator. ... Composition of Mercury | Universe Today...
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Scientists believe that the interior structure of Mercury includes a metallic core, an intermediate rocky layer, and a thin brittle crust. The composition of Mercury is probably high in iron, although surface features indicate that volcanic activity once existed at the surface.
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Mercury/Earth Comparison ... Surface pressure: ~10-15 bar (0.001 picobar) Average temperature: 440 K (167 C) (590-725 K, sunward side) Total mass of atmosphere: <~1000 kg Atmospheric composition: 42% Oxygen (O2), 29% Sodium (Na), 22% Hydrogen (H2), 6% Helium (He), 0.5% Potassium (K), possible trace amounts of Argon...
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Mercury is the planet closest to the sun in our solar system and the fastest planet. ... Map of Mercury ... INSIDE MERCURY; Crust: Mercury has a thick crust that is composed mostly of silicate rocks. Mercury may have small ice caps at its north and south poles; this ice stays frozen inside deep craters that are shaded...
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Mercury-reducing biofilms from packed-bed bioreactors treating nonsterile industrial effluents were shown to consist of a monolayer of bacteria by scanning electron microscopy.
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The region around Mercury is filled with ions that originate from interactions of the solar wind with Mercury's space environment and through ionization of its exosphere.
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For reasons that are at this time not well understood, the optimal amount of xenon for the rare earth/sodium halide mercury-free composition is significantly less than is required for the scandium/sodium halide composition.
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In the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention mercury ammonium chloride, resorcinol and sulphur components, are suitably mixed with conventional eccipients suitable for the preparation of pharmaceutical preparations for topical use, such as creams, emulsions, gel, ointments.
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Mercury (planet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it ha...
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