Over the years, the planet Mercury has had very few important discoveries made by researchers, but an incredible recent discovery comes to explain a very big mystery related to the cosmic body. More precisely, scientists have managed to explain why the planet Mercury has a core full of iron, but also what happens to its magnetic field, everything being finally possible after many years of not knowing too much about the interior of the planet.
The planet Mercury has a core full of iron, and scientists needed many decades to explain why this happened, and now they tell us that the sun is the reason for the presence of this element there. According to scientists, the very strong magnetic field that the sun had in the immediate period of formation also influenced the way the planet Mercury was formed, plus the large amount of iron that exists in its core.
Planet Mercury: INCREDIBLE Announcement with an Important Discovery
The planet Mercury has a core whose mass is composed of about 75% of metals, the remaining 25% being composed of hard silicate materials, and this combination was a great mystery until recently. Earth and Venus have cores in which metals represent only a third of the composition, but the planet Mercury has more than 2 times more metal in its core, and now we know that the sun is the main reason for this very large difference.
"Mercury has a metallic core that accounts for about 3/4 of its mass, the remaining 1/4 being a rocky silicate shell. The cores of Earth and Venus possess a metallic core of only 1/3 of their mass, the rest being rock. Mars has a tiny core that comprises only 1/4 of its mass. Early in the formation of the solar system, a cloudy disk of gas and dust surrounded the Sun and planets, serving as a conduit for the Sun's magnetic field. The strength of the magnetic field decreased as it moved further away from the Sun. Mercury formed in the prime location – close to where the Sun's magnetic field was strongest, thus explaining its large iron core.”
The planet Mercury has collected a lot of metal in its core because it is so close to the sun, the source of these elements, and as we move away from the star, the percentage of metals in the planets' cores decreases. Unlike the planet Mercury, Mars has in its core mass or metals that represent only a quarter of the total mass, so we see very large differences between the planets, and all based on the very large distance in relation to the sun in the center of the solar system.
The planet Mercury did not make this extremely important discovery very easily, but this is how we find out slowly, little by little, why there is such a large disproportionality between the elements in its core.
