Ka taƙaita labarin:  (CNN) Kamar yadda taurari ke tafiya, Mercury ba ya samun ƙauna mai yawa. Mutane suna bata lokaci akan Google suna neman mawaki na Queen Freddy Mercury fiye da duniyar Mercury... kuma Freddie ya tafi kusan kusan kwata na karni. Ko da NASA ba ta ciyar da lokaci mai yawa a can, yana mai da shi mafi ƙarancin binciken duniyar da ke cikin tsarin hasken rana. Amma akwai wata tambaya da ta daɗe tana damun masana kimiyya: Me ya sa wannan al'amari mai ban tsoro ya yi duhu haka? Idan aka kwatanta da duniyarmu, wadda girmanta ya yi daidai da na duniyarmu, duniyar Mercury ba ta da haske sosai. Masana kimiyya a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Jami'ar Brown da Cibiyar Kimiyyar Duniya sun ce wataƙila sun sami amsar: An "fasa shi baƙar fata", a cikin kalmomin Megan Bruck Syal, mai binciken postdoctoral a Lawrence Livermore. A cikin shekaru da yawa, masu binciken sun yi jayayya a cikin wata takarda da aka buga Litinin a mujallar Nature Geoscience, ƙananan meteorites da aka haifa daga tauraron dan adam masu wadataccen carbon na iya ba da gudummawar isasshen carbon mai duhu don rage yawan hasken da aka nuna. Abubuwa sun yi kama da juna: Akwai ƙurar carbon da yawa da ake fitarwa daga tauraron dan adam kusa da rana, inda Mercury ke zagayawa - kusan sau 50 ga Mercury kamar na duniyarmu, in ji masu binciken. Kuma gwaje-gwajen da aka yi ta amfani da babbar bindiga ta NASA da aka yi don kwaikwayon tasirin taurari a kan ƙaramin sikelin kamar sun nuna cewa ka'idar tana da kyau, in ji marubutan. Peter Schultz, wani farfesan ilimin ƙasa a Jami'ar Brown ya ce: "Mun ga cewa carbon yana kama da wani abu da ba a gani da ke ba da haske". "Daga ra'ayin nazarin bakan, kamar zane ne da ba a gani".
Mercury an "fenta shi da baƙar fata" ta miliyoyin shekaru na micrometeorites, in ji masu bincike. Binciken na iya warware matsalar dalilin da yasa duniyar ta yi duhu sosai.