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title: How Can This Super Hot Planet Have Ice? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-can-this-super-hot-planet-have-ice/
date: 2016-02-23
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# How Can This Super Hot Planet Have Ice?

Mercury is one of the hottest planets in our solar system, but that doesn’t stop it from having water ice. NASA’s MESSENGER probe discovered the water ice after an eight year journey through our solar system.