The Source of the Water Found in the Form of Ice

question 226

Multiple Choice

The source of the water found in the form of ice near Mercury's north and south poles is

• A) comet impacts.
• B) unknown at the present time.
• C) rainfall early in Mercury's history, when the planet had a dense atmosphere.
• D) a former global ocean, now almost entirely evaporated and lost to space.

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