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Originally Posted by Dave Mitsky
The hint about Martian stellar occultations tends to make me think that part of the answer has something to do with the Martian atmosphere but I haven't been able to find any references to that or to how it applies to Mercury. There is the finding about possible ice in polar craters on Mercury...
Dave Mitsky
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It says in my Mars magazine that French astronomer Audoin Dollfus reportedly detected water vapor in the Mars atmosphere in 1963, but I don't think he had anything to do with Mercury whereas Schiaparelli did. Plus there's this business about occultation.