Mercury's Interior, Surface, and Surrounding Environment: Latest Discoveries

by Pamela Elizabeth Clark

This SpringerBrief details the MESSENGER Mission, the findings of which present challenges to widely held conventional views and remaining mysteries surrounding the planet. The work answers the question of why Mercury is so dense, and the implications from geochemical data on its planetary formation. It summarizes imaging and compositional data from the terrestrial planet surface processes and explains the geologic history of Mercury. It also discusses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493922432
• ISBN13: 9781493922437
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"