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Half-millimetre glass beads push Mercury's lava source deeper into its mantle
A team calibrated infrared spectra against beads of known silica content, checked the method on the Moon where returned rocks can grade it, and now reads Mercury's surface as up to 25 percent poorer in silica than assumed.
Publishers:discovermagazine.com
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