21 Sep 2012 - MESSENGER's X-Ray Spectrometer Reveals Chemical Diversity on Mercury's

[NASA]

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-messenger-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=40943)21 Sep 2012 - MESSENGER's X-Ray Spectrometer Reveals Chemical Diversity on Mercury's Surface
New data from the X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) on the MESSENGER spacecraft show variations in the composition of surface material on Mercury that point to changes over time in the characteristics of volcanic eruptions on the solar system's innermost planet.


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[ghostrider]

the messenger should take a look at the planet vulcano while its close to mercury, then swing by the moons of saturn and jupiter and say hello to the one of the 1,040,000 human civilizations that live the milkyway galaxy.

[bennycog]

hey ghost i cant find any refernces to a planet vulcano.. just references to an island in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrhenian_Sea and to the vulcan mythology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)

can you fill us in mate :)