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Mercury to scale among the Inner Solar System planetary-mass objects beside the Sun, arranged by the order of their orbits outward from the Sun (from left: Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars and Ceres) Mercury is one of four terrestrial planets in the Solar System, which means it is a rocky body like Earth
Mercury – Gravity Anomalies – mass concentrations (red) suggest subsurface structure and evolution. Like the Earth, Moon and Mars, Mercury's geologic history is divided into eras. From oldest to youngest, these are: the pre-Tolstojan, Tolstojan, Calorian, Mansurian, and Kuiperian. Their ages are based on relative dating only. [14]
An animation explaining why the planet Mercury may appear to move "backwards", or retrograde across Earth's sky. Apparent retrograde motion is the apparent motion of a planet in a direction opposite to that of other bodies within its system, as observed from a particular vantage point.
The Fresnel lenses of old lighthouses used to float and rotate in a bath of mercury which acted like a bearing. [102] Mercury sphygmomanometers, barometers, diffusion pumps, coulometers, and many other laboratory instruments took advantage of mercury's properties as a very dense, opaque liquid with a nearly linear thermal expansion. [103]
Mercury – smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Its orbital period (about 88 Earth days) is less than any other planet in the Solar System. Seen from Earth, it appears to move around its orbit in about 116 days.
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.
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Mercury(II) sulfide, HgS, adopts the cinnabar structure described, and one additional structure, i.e. it is dimorphous. [16] Cinnabar is the more stable form, and is a structure akin to that of HgO : each Hg center has two short Hg−S bonds (each 2.36 Å ), and four longer Hg···S contacts (with 3.10, 3.10, 3.30 and 3.30 Å separations).