Search of Water in other Planets - The hottest Planet Mercury

Water is the source of life and without water nothing could survive is the science that we know. There could be an entirely new alien living being that could live without water or even oxygen, is still a thing that could be pondered. But as of now what our science knows limits us not to venture further and be content with the facts that we are only kind of living beings in the Universe. The conditions that are present in our planet are the most suitable ones for creation of life.

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But even the presence of water also does not indicate presence of living beings because there are various factors that govern the creation of life like atmosphere, temperature and other natural conditions that are custom built by earth for our survival. As a matter of fact water is discovered in most of the planets in our solar system and is also observed to be present in some of the Moons even.

Scientists believe that there is a zone called habitable zone in the solar system and life could survive only in that zone and we at earth sit exactly in that zone. 

But since we have found water to shape the lives of beings in earth even in adverse conditions we are still intrigued and continue our researches to find out if there are other possibilities for survival of living beings beyond this habitable zone. The first part of it is to ascertain the availability of water in other planets and moons and we have made significant progress in that. And the next step would be to explore the possibility of surviving living beings in those areas and also to find out any traces of past life that is extinct now.

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I am just going to discuss only about the findings of water in other planets and moons in our solar system and in what form the water is existing there.

Mercury:

This is the closest planet to the sun with scorching temperatures of more than 450 degree centigrade. Liquid water is certainly not a possibility as the boiling point of water is 100 degree centigrade. It cannot freeze at this high temperature as we all know that the freezing point of water is 0 degree C. But as a wonder of wonders presence of water is detected in Mercury in the year 2012 by Messenger satellite that is orbiting around the planet Mercury.\

An entire crate in the northern pole of Mercury that is 113 kilometer wide is discovered to be made of ice deposits. Even though here are other deposits ion the same crater that are darker in shade, the deposits of ice are lighter in color and are noticeably separated from other deposits. We can conclude three things with this discovery. 

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There is evidence of water in mercury even though in a form that is not suitable for living organisms to thrive.  The darker deposits that could be formed by organic matters that further indicates that there would have been living organisms in the distant past and who knows even now. We still believe that the conditions prevailing in earth are the only ones that are suitable to support life. This belief is rooted in our minds as we have not come across any living beings that survive in different conditions and atmospheres.

The corners of the crates that separate ice and other darker deposits are found to be very sharp which as per the scientists is an indication that these crates are comparatively younger than the crates found in other planets and moons.  In fact we also know that our moon also has frozen water in its polar crates. But these deposits are considered to be older than the ones that are found in mercury. There is also another fact about Mercury that substantiate the discovery.

There is not tilt in the position of Mercury as we find in our earth. This keeps the poles of Mercury always on a darker side with no sunlight directly falling over them. Who knows? This could also be one of the nature’s cradles that is harboring lives and had done so in the past and evidences of such survivals are still left there. Only time and further advances in science could enlighten us about the exact situation prevailing there.

So we now know that the life giving water is not exclusive to us alone. It is also available in hot planets like Mercury and other planets and moons about which we will be discussing in my next post. The conditions prevailing Mercury also indicates the fate of our own planet when our Sun reaches the red giant stage. Whether we could survive in those extreme conditions inside some frozen ice crates buried deep inside the poles of our planet. 

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The answer very well lies in those ice crates found in Mercury. If we could find any living organism there, then that would be a conclusive evidence that would tell us whether we could survive under abusive circumstances and how life could be led there. That would also open various options of living in other planets that are not suitable for habitation.

My next post will be about water in Venus.