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AerospaceFan 9th January

also water ice is comfirmed on mercurys poles
AerospaceFan 9th January

What__: 0.38au SMA and 0.2 eccentricity, thats 3 times less than earths distance
LogikDOS 9th January

it dosent matter how close it is only until somepoint if it turns stupid slow it will get way colder on the night side
What__ 9th January

holy moly im a yapper in science
What__ 9th January

LogikDOS: that doesn't work because the sun is like 3 to 5 times closer for mercury than earth so if water was on day side it would be vaporized and blown away by solar winds so that water is just gone and mercury is not tidaly locked but has a slightly slower rotation than it's orbit so the night will eventarly become day and that water will be vaporized and blown away
LogikDOS 8th January

i mean mercurys night sould be deffently cold enough idk how low it gets but its deffently in the negatives
What__ 8th January

all though its a extremly small amount of ice
What__ 8th January

rooger: WRONG! there are some ice inside mercury's crators in the poles that don't recive any sunlight and due to there not being any atmosphere the temperatures there stay relativly cold
rooger 7th January

no, it doesn't even have polar ice because it formed too close for water to even be there in thefirst place, perhaps it has some hydrates though
Aperitus 7th January

mercury is way too hot to have ice maybe some traces near the poles where its night for long periods of time but idk

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