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Why can't mercury support life?

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Life as we know it requires the presence of liquid water, the temperatures and pressures found on the surface of Mercury mean that water cannot exist there. This makes it highly unlikely that life could develop on that planet.

Additional is that Mercury is mostly made out of Gas. There is only a small circle of rock in the centre. I'm not exactly sure that life can live on such a small area and live in the different gases on Mercury.

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