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Ice production on the hottest planet in our solar system

Water is crucial to life on Earth. It is also present on other planets and solar system bodies. Indeed, ground-based radar observations and space probe data indicated the presence of frozen water ice even on Mercury, the hottest planet in our solar system! Water, in... click to read more

Brant M. Jones | Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Menelaos Sarantos | Professor at Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

Thomas M. Orlando | Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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published on May 28, 2021