Astronomy
A guide to the inner solar system from Mercury’s shrinkage to Mars’ lost water
The four rocky worlds closest to the sun share a common ancestry but have followed radically different paths. Mercury is still shrinking as its interior cools. Venus traps so much heat that its surface glows in a perpetual red twilight. Earth sustains liquid water and life. Mars, once flush with enough water to fill an […]
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