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WildMage
12-02-2012, 07:55 AM
The Science Channel is covering the NASA press conference LIVE, check it out.

NASA dispatched the Curiosity rover to Mars to look for organics, but a probe orbiting Mercury has beaten it to the punch.

New results from the MESSENGER spacecraft not only confirm that the planet closest to the sun has ice inside shaded craters near the north pole, but that a thin layer of very dark organic material seems to be covering a good part of the frozen water.

Both likely arrived via comets or asteroids millions -- or hundreds of millions -- of years ago.

http://news.discovery.com/space/organics-found-on-mercury-121129.html

CasperParks
12-02-2012, 09:32 AM
It is an interesting discovery.