Using data from NASA's Messenger spacecraft, researchers have determined that a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds may lie beneath Mercury's crust. This finding could explain several long-standing ...

Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that a 10-mile-thick diamond mantle may lie beneath ...

Additionally, studies of Mercury's crust and lithosphere have utilized high-resolution gravity and topography data from the MESSENGER mission. By analyzing the relationship between gravity and ...

Both neutron stars and certain moons such as Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus have thin crusts over deep oceans, while Mercury has a thin crust over a large metallic core.