Nightly News   |  November 29, 2012

Ice flourishes on planet near Sun

Scientists at NASA announced there is as much as a trillion tons of ice on both poles of Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> back with the news from mars, and it is a bit of a disappointment. as we told you last night, one guy at the jet propulsion laboratory where they had that big announcement, had all of our hopes up. sounded like something big. but they say today, so far they found no signs of life , any organic material , on the mars soil, and for space buffs, there is ice on mercury, more than a trillion tons, important because mercury is the closest planet to the sun, but the ice can be found closer to mercury's poles.