# Screw Mars, Mercury Has Ice too **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 29, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496 "2012-11-29T11:50:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MOBOOST4U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/1 "2012-11-29T11:50:07Z")
[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/science/space/mercury-home-to-ice-messenger-spacecraft-findings-suggest.html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/science/space/mercury-home-to-ice-messenger-spacecraft-findings-suggest.html?_r=0) While everyone had their heads all up in Curiosity’s ass, Messenger was off doing its own thaannngg… > Mercury is as cold as ice. > Indeed, Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, possesses a lot of ice, scientists working with NASA’s Messenger spacecraft reported on Thursday. > Sean C. Solomon, the principal investigator for Messenger, said there was enough ice there to encase Washington, D.C., in a frozen block two and a half miles deep. > That is a counterintuitive discovery for a place that also ranks among the hottest in the solar system. At noon at the equator on Mercury, the temperature can hit 800 degrees Fahrenheit. > But near Mercury’s poles, deep within craters where the Sun never shines, temperatures dip to as cold as minus 370. ---
**Author:** ![Beck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/beck/32/28683_2.png) [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/2 "2012-11-29T11:51:37Z")
N **ICE**!! ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/3 "2012-11-29T12:19:47Z")
**Cool** story bro! ---------- Post added at 03:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:17 PM ---------- … But seriously this is interesting stuff. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/4 "2012-11-29T12:29:03Z")
you need to **chill** on the puns ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/5 "2012-11-29T13:25:08Z")
Looks like this article has some cold hard facts. Ahh shit, I think I just ruined it. ---
**Author:** ![Spam16v](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spam16v/32/5287_2.png) [@Spam16v](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Spam16v)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/6 "2012-11-29T18:04:07Z")
**I C** e what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![BigRon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/7 "2012-11-29T18:51:10Z")
> [@boxxa](#): > > you need to **chill** on the puns Don’t be bitter about it ---
**Author:** ![ubengineering](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ubengineering/32/5171_2.png) [@ubengineering](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ubengineering)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/8 "2012-11-30T04:03:30Z")
Ok the last two suck ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/9 "2012-11-30T04:41:58Z")
Well **shiver** me timbers. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/10 "2012-12-01T18:55:57Z")
what’s interesting is that with each of those extremes it suggest that there will be places on mercury that are suitable for human life somewhere in between. i also read that there was organic matter inside the ice which is even more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/11 "2012-12-03T06:28:04Z")
> [@bing](#): > > what’s interesting is that with each of those extremes it suggest that there will be places on mercury that are suitable for human life somewhere in between. > > i also read that there was organic matter inside the ice which is even more interesting. “Stable” for human life in the same sense that the moon is “stable”… high radiation is just one of the many obstacles to having humans near Mercury let alone on it’s surface. Organic matter isn’t that unusual. It just means they found a good about of carbon which we find on meteorites all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-mars-mercury-has-ice-too/227496/12 "2012-12-03T06:32:44Z")
this reminds me of the jail planet in chronicles of riddick