AOL.com Video - Planet Mercury Once Contained a Magma Ocean

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Planet Mercury Once Contained a Magma Ocean

Description:While Mars is grabbing all the media attention these days thanks to Curiosity, that doesn't make other planets in our solar system any less interesting. Researchers from MIT have concluded that Mercury, the planet closest to the sun may have contained an ocean of magma about 4 billion years ago. The scientists examined data that was collected by the NASA Messenger spacecraft, which is on a long term mission to study Mercury. (1:14)

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