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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 14 > Mercury flyby answers some old questions

Mercury flyby answers some old questions

By Kenneth Chang / The Bulletin
July 14, 2008

Mercury, the smallest planet, bakes in the heat of the sun, but it has water in some form. It has volcanoes. It appears to have a magnetic field generated by a molten iron core. And it has shrunk more than scientists thought.

Those are some of the findings gleaned from the flyby of....

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