A team of astronomers has discovered that tiny Mercury has a molten core, just like our own planet. The discovery was made using three ground-based radio observatories that bounced radio waves off the planet, and then analysed the return signals. Before this research, scientists were divided about the structure of Mercury. Most models predicted that it has an iron-rich core, but it wasn’t known if it had completely cooled, or was still liquid inside.
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