Creation Moment 11/11/2023 - Here's as Answer to the Quandary of Mercury

 "Of all the planets in our solar system, Mercury may be the most

mysterious. It's so close to the Sun that terrestrial telescopes can have trouble looking at it, and what we've been able to gather about it has left scientists scratching their heads.
A huge metallic core represents about half the planet's volume (Earth's is just 10 percent, by comparison). Some theorize it used to be a planet similar in characteristics to Earth and Venus but either had its crust stripped off by a collision or boiled by the sun. Either way, when it comes to this planet, there are a lot of questions without answers." BF 

Well, here's an answer to the questions of Mercury---and why it's unique--as most planets are: Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Hebrews 1:2

Creation Moment 10/29/2023 - Mercury's Evidence fits a Recent Creation

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.... Hebrews 11:3

"In fact, it is because of this presumed rapid heat loss that

mainstream scientists were surprised when data from the Mariner 10 spacecraft revealed that Mercury still has a magnetic field. 

This is because ‘planetary dynamo’ theories attempting to explain how a planet can maintain a magnetic field over eons of time require a molten liquid core within the planet. 

But because of Mercury’s small size, Mercury’s core should have cooled off long ago, making it impossible for such dynamo behavior to continue.

The survival of Mercury’s magnetic field and ongoing contraction are much easier to explain if Mercury was created recently. 

Indeed, indications of relative youth are abundant throughout our solar system. 

This should not be surprising since Scripture affirms that the Lord Jesus Christ created the entire universe recently, just 6,000 years ago." ICR

Creation Moment 12/7/2022 - Mercury Time

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.  Hebrews 11:3

"Evolution is dead without its billions of years. Darwin needed
exorbitant and reckless withdrawals from the bank of time for his Stuff Happens Law to make humans from bacteria. If the solar system is far younger than the current consensus age of 4.5 billion years, it would imply the Earth is young. And if the Earth is young, Big Science would shudder with horror. The thought of young-Earth creationists saying “I told you so!” is too distasteful for academia to imagine or permit. 

 

Mercury

For such a small object to be active is remarkable.

Present Day Endogenic and Exogenic Activity on Mercury (American Geophysical Union Geophysical Science Letters, 14 Aug 2022).

This paper revealed surprising evidence of current activity on Mercury, the innermost rocky planet. 

As a small body not much larger than our moon, Mercury should be dead and cold despite its proximity to the sun (which only heats Mercury’s surface). 

An occasional meteor strike might change things, but earthquakes? (or Mercuryquakes?) 

How could such a small sphere keep its core liquid long enough to produce endogenic (interior-generated) changes that continue to the present day?

We use before and after (temporal) image pairs collected by the Mercury Dual Imaging System to identify 20 surface changes on Mercury that formed between 2011 and 2015. We identified at least one change likely resulting from a newly formed impact crater with bright rays that extend away from the site. If all the changes result from impact events, then the present-day rate of impactors striking the innermost planet is 1,000 times higher than models predict. Therefore, we investigate other sources for these detected changes. We located several changes on steep slopes near tectonic landforms, consistent with ongoing tectonic activity. Additionally, we identified several changes in areas adjacent to hollow formations, consistent with present-day activity." CEH