RESEARCH | Why does Mercury wear a crust of graphite? 🛰️ 🌑 As the BepiColombo mission enters the final phase of its journey toward Mercury, researchers at the University of Liège and KU Leuven have used experimental petrology to reconstruct the earliest evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. 👉️ https://www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_13721964/en/how-mercury-formed-its-graphite-crust-and-core @Nature #astronomy #ESA #space