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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 ...
Mercury is one of four terrestrial planets in the Solar System, which means it is a rocky body like Earth. It is the smallest planet in the Solar System, with an equatorial radius of 2,439.7 kilometres (1,516.0 mi). [4] Mercury is also smaller—albeit more massive—than the largest natural satellites in the Solar System, Ganymede and Titan.
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The planet is named after the Roman god Mercury, the messenger to the gods. ALT 1 Reason Picture has a huge EV, is verifiable, and looks good. Articles in which this image appears Mercury (planet) FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured Pictures#Space Creator NASA. Support as nominator--LlamaAl 20:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Looking good, Mercury! NASA produced stunning new images this week one of Earth's closest planetary neighbors, that might be just a little reminiscent of a '60s-era poster The pics came courtesy ...
Mercury is a mystery.Just two spacecraft have ever flown by the closest planet to the sun. Now the BepiColombo mission, a joint European-Japanese science undertaking, is on track to orbit and ...
A few other images are of low quality but it might be hard to find versions of higher quality: Ba (oxidises too easily), Pm, Ra, Pa (radioactives). A few images are only available as fair-use: Po, Np, Cm. It may be possible to find a free alternative (although it would be quite difficult).
The base mosaic used in the new maps was produced with orbital images by the MESSENGER Team and released by NASA’s Planetary Data System on March 8, 2013. This global mosaic includes complete coverage of Mercury’s surface.