Mercury's Sulfur-Powered Interior Forces a Rewrite of Planetary Formation
TL;DR
Lab experiments using the 1891 Indarch meteorite recreate Mercury-like magmas and show sulfur can substitute for oxygen, lowering crystallization temperatures and challenging Earth-centric models of rocky-planet evolution.
- Mercury Just Broke The Rules Of Planet Formation And Scientists Are Stunned The Daily Galaxy
- Sulfur-rich Mercury magmas behave differently than Earth's do Phys.org
- Why Mercury Doesn’t Play by Earth’s Rules: The Sulfur Problem Space Daily
- Mercury’s sulfur-rich magmas turned out to be completely different from those on Earth Universe Space Tech
- Here’s What Scientists Found When They Cooked Up Their Own ‘Mercury Rocks’ Gizmodo
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