Mercury is still shrinking after billions of years: How its giant cooling core is cracking the planet’s thin crust

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, only slightly larger than Earth's Moon, but what lies beneath its battered surface is anything but small. Its metallic core stretches out to nearly 85 per cent of the planet's total radius, leaving behind a rocky shell so thin it barely qualifies as a shell at all.

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