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Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. In English, it is named after the ancient Roman god Mercurius , god of commerce and communication, and the messenger of the gods. Mercury is classified as a terrestrial planet, with roughly the same surface gravity as Mars.
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above ...
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Five planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury — are bright enough to see with the naked eye. Uranus and Neptune are visible with a telescope. Uranus and Neptune are visible with a ...
Six planets will be visible together in a rare 'planet parade' starting Jan. 21 ... Getty Images Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and the moon visible at night.
Reprocessed Mariner 10 data was used to produce this image of Mercury. The smooth band is an area of which no images were taken. Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets. [3]
Down below are Computer Generated images of what Earth and the Moon might have looked like. Apollo program landing sites are marked. Pluto is also in the field but is too dim to be seen. The zodiacal light will be more prominent than it is from Earth. Mercury has a southern pole star, α Pictoris, a magnitude 3.2 star.
MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. [9] [10] The name is a backronym for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging, and a reference to the messenger god Mercury from Roman mythology.