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Mercury may have shrunk much more than we thought, new study hints
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Mercury may be shrinking much faster than we thought — and that could reveal new clues about its violent origins.
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Mercury may be shrinking much faster than we thought — and that could reveal new clues about its violent origins.
Mercury's surface is riddled with wrinkles, evidence of a once-larger planet that has shrunk over time. A new study finds that Mercury may have contracted 10% to 30% more than previously thought—a loss of nearly 12 miles (19 kilometers) of total diameter since the planet formed—due to debris from impact craters obscuring signs of the planet's shrinking.