Detailed maps of Mercury’s cliffs and ditches show the solar system’s innermost and smallest planet Mercury has lost much more real estate due to cooling over four billion years than scientists thought.
Cooling of Mercury’s massive iron core has pared about 14km from the planet’s diameter, more than twice as much as previous estimates.
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