By Rand Paul
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Just in time for Christmas, scientists have confirmed a vast amount of ice at the north pole _ on Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.

The first batch of hundreds of photos taken in orbit of Mercury show numerous battle scars on the tiny planet. They are from space rocks regularly pelting Mercury at high speeds, scientists said.

Think the moon has many craters? New photos from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury show the tiny inner planet has far more impressive battle scars from regular high-speed peltings by space rocks.

For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.
For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.
For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.

Earth is about to get better acquainted with its oddball planetary cousin, Mercury, a rocky wonderland of extremes.

Earth is about to get better acquainted with its oddball planetary cousin, Mercury, a rocky wonderland of extremes.
But the latest findings may help explain how water and other building blocks of life arrived elsewhere in the solar system, he said.
Mercury is becoming the subject of new interest "where it wasn't much of one before," Solomon said.