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Rice researchers find sulfur-rich Mercury magmas behave differently than Earth’s

Rice University researchers recreate Mercury rocks in the lab and find that sulphur plays a structural role inhabited by oxygen on Earth ...
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Here’s What Scientists Found When They Cooked Up Their Own ‘Mercury Rocks’

Sulfur on Mercury was as important to the planet's formation as oxygen was to Earth's evolution, the study suggests. Reading time 3 minutes When studying Venus and Mars, Earth’s neighbors in the inner ...
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Sulfur-rich magma: The key to understanding the solar system’s most reduced planet

Researchers have found that Mercury's low-iron, high-sulfur chemistry allows its magma to stay liquid at lower temperatures than Earth's ...