How was Mercury’s wrinkly surface formed? Mercury’s ancient volcanoes – which might still be slightly active today – can be seen. The wrinkly surface of the plains, called Borealis Plantia ...

Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury’s surface is cratered and barren, lacking any atmosphere but possessing a huge metal core. MESSENGER revealed dormant volcanoes, water ice hiding in shadowed ...

Scientists analyzed mercury levels from core samples from the Mochras Farm (Llanbedr) borehole in Wales to estimate how much and how rapidly carbon was released during ancient volcano events in ...

Volcanoes, like the Deccan Traps, are the largest source of mercury in the atmosphere. Fossils find that at the time of the eruptions — tens of thousands of years before the asteroid impact ...

So our moon has ‘lumps’ and ‘bumps’, then - in planetary order from the sun - Mercury has ‘ridges’ and ‘craters’, Venus has ‘clouds’ and ‘volcanoes’, the Earth has ‘life ...