🚀 Fresh from the furnace! Associate Professor Tiffany Barry has been unwrapping never before seen ‘rocks’ and sharing this exciting moment with us. She has taken delivery of man-made “rocks” that mimic the surface of planet Mercury. 🔥 Mercury’s surface is unlike anything on Earth — super low in iron, rich in mystery, and shaped by its searing closeness to the Sun ☀️. With no real Mercury samples ever found as meteorites (and none likely to be brought back anytime soon), these synthetic version