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The Planet Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun in our solar system. It orbits the Sun every 88 days. Mercury is one of the four terrestrial planets (rocky body). The mean surface temperature of Mercury is 452 K.
by Patrick Omari
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest of the rocky terrestrial planets in our solar system. Named after the Roman God of commerce, travel and thievery, the planet is a harsh world of extreme temperatures about which relatively little is known. Mercury orbits the Sun at a distance of 46-70 million km and passes within 77.3 million km of the Earth at its closest pass. It takes the small planet just 88 Earth days to complete an orbit round the Sun and 58...
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Scientists are tackling new oddities at the planet Mercury via images beamed home by a NASA spacecraft that zoomed past the small, rocky world earlier this month. NASA’s Messenger spacecraft returned 1,287 new views of Mercury during an Oct. 6 ...
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October 30, 2008 C-SPAN NASA scientists announced findings and released new images from the October 6 flyby of the planet Mercury by the NASA Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3379095295364156012
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By Rob Coppinger The cost estimates for the joint European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) double-spacecraft BepiColombo Mercury ...
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Boston (dbTechno) - This past Monday, the NASA Messenger spacecraft got the closest yet to the planet Mercury, snapping some amazing images. This was the second fly-by for the NASA Messenger spacecraft,which originally went by back in January of this ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A car-sized NASA probe zoomed about 126 miles above the rocky, crater-scarred surface of Mercury on Monday, becoming the first spacecraft since 1975 to fly past the closest planet to the sun. The U.S. space agency's MESSENGER ...
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The announcement comes less than a week after NASA disclosed that its Messenger spacecraft was to fly over the planet Mercury today, to start taking more ...
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An image of the planet Mercury, made during the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury... An image of the planet Mercury, made during the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging ...
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(WAPA) - The "BepiColombo Prize" application form is already available online. This is the second edition of the Prize founded by the Italian Space Agency, ...
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None, however, were directly imaged, few showed evidence for multiple planets, and many had a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting inside the orbit of Mercury. Last week, however, together with recent image s of Fomalhaut b , the above picture was released ...
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Mercury and Neptune challenge each other to a cosmic duel, which neither will win. Mercury is the communication planet, and Neptune rules the higher realms of imagination and belief. The two struggle to prove which is more important, words or the ...
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