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How is it possible for Mercury to have ice?

Updated: 8/21/2019
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Mercury has almost no atmosphere and so there is nothing to hold the Solar heat in. As a result the temperature drops during Mercurial nights. The polar regions of Mercury get very little direct sunlight and so they are always below 180 K.

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