Mercury May Be Shrinking Faster than Scientists Thought
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Mercury is the smallest planet of the solar system - and shrinks further. A new study from Japan and Germany estimates the decline in the past billions of years to more than 23 kilometers in diameter. This could provide information about the interior of the planet.
Mercury is a much smaller planet than scientists previously thought. A new study suggests that its shrinking may be 10% to 30% larger than previously thought, CNN reports. According to scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), whose results are published in Geophysical Research Letters, Mercury's diameter may have shrunk by as much as 23 kilometers over the planet's roughly 4.5 billion-year history. The reason for the shrinkage lies in Me…
The distinctive “wrinkles” covering Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, suggest that it was once a larger world that has shrunk — and its shrinkage may be greater than scientists have previously estimated. The smallest planet in our Solar System is located on average about 58 million kilometers from ... More www.ertnews.gr
The planet's wrinkles provide scientists with clues about the speed of contraction of its size
Studies revealed that the wrinkled planet has contracted between 10 and 30 percent more than estimated
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