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In Depth | Mercury – NASA Solar System Exploration
The smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun, Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. From the surface of Mercury, the Sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from Earth, and the sunlight would be as much as seven times brighter.

10 Need-to-Know Things About Mercury - NASA Solar System Exploration
Mercury is the fastest planet in our solar system – traveling through space at nearly 29 miles (47 kilometers) per second. The closer a planet is to the Sun, the faster it travels. Since Mercury is the fastest planet and has the shortest distance to travel around the Sun, it has the shortest year of all the planets in our solar system – 88 ...

Mercury 3D Model - NASA Solar System Exploration
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Mercury Lander Mission Concept Study - NASA Solar System Exploration
The mission focuses on fundamental science questions that can be best, or only, achieved by surface operations such as determining Mercury''s bulk composition, the nature of the magnetic field, surface history, internal structure, and surface-solar wind interactions.

Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.

What is a Planet? | Planets – NASA Solar System Exploration
Pluto, discovered in 1930, was identified as the ninth planet. But Pluto is much smaller than Mercury and is even smaller than some of the planetary moons. It is unlike the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars), or the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn), or the ice giants (Uranus, Neptune).

In Depth | 2P/Encke – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft imaged comet 2P/Encke during its closest approach of the planet Mercury at 22:56 UTC on November 17. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Southwest Research Institute

Directory - NASA Solar System Exploration
A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Paul has a Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers University. He is a member of the New Jersey Astronomical Association and former leader for the Somerset County 4-H Space & Astronomy Club.

Mars By the Numbers – NASA Solar System Exploration
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest. It’s the only planet we know of inhabited entirely by robots.

Mercury By the Numbers – NASA Solar System Exploration
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and the smallest planet in our solar system - only slightly larger than Earth's Moon.

         

 

 

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