In light of this study and other data
collected by MESSENGER showing traces of the volatiles sulfur, potassium, and sodium on Mercury's surface, both those scenarios seem increasingly unlikely.
Not exact matches
The team, headed
by OIST's Prof. Alexander Mikheyev of the Ecology and Evolution Unit and Dr. Claire Morandin, post-doctoral scholar at the University of Helsinki,
collected queens and workers and sequenced the transcriptome — the full range of
messenger RNA molecules expressed
by an organism — of 16 species of ants to create a co-expression network of 36 sets of genes, that represent groups of similarly expressed genes.
For their analysis, the team utilized data
collected by NASA's
MESSENGER spacecraft.
Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings
collected in 2009
by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (
MESSENGER) mission.