Ice, maybe organics on Mercury

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MESSENGER Finds New Evidence for Water Ice at Mercury's Poles
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/media/PressConf20121129.html

Some of the ice is buried under "unusually dark material" that may be organics deposited by impacts of comets and volatile-rich asteroids. The possibility of organics at Mercury's poles is certainly interesting if true.

» Viking may have destroyed Mars organics - Reanalysis with Phoenix data
» Meteorite from Mercury?
» Mercury's hidden side imaged
» KOI-2700 -- Another evaporating Mercury-like world?
» Mercury's rotation suggests it has a liquid core