NASA's MESSENGER mission discovered that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, contains water ice in its permanently shadowed polar craters, where temperatures remain low enough to preserve ice despite the planet's extreme proximity to the Sun; if this polar ice were spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., it would be more than 2 miles thick.
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The closest planet to the sun has ice, not clouds, real water ice. Mercury's poles hide craters that never see sunlight. Inside those permanent shadows, spacecraft found ice trapped in the dark. Spread that ice over Washington, D.C. and it could be more than 2 miles thick.
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