Mercury

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Mercury

• The CLOSEST planet
• to the Sun

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Mercury vs. the Moon
http//photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03103
http//www.higginsc.com/Moon/moon.htm
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Mercurys Internal Structure
http//www.solarviews.com/raw/merc/mercint.jpg
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MESSENGER
http//messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/trajectory
.html
MESSENGER launch video
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Densely Cratered Terrain
Lunar Highlands, for comparison
http//www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bi
n/info.shtml?42
http//photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02937
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Smooth Plains
Lunar Mare, for comparison
http//photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02425
http//www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bi
n/info.shtml?349
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Volcanoes on Mercury?
http//photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11013
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Interesting Medium-sized Craters
http//photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02420
http//www.solarviews.com/raw/merc/mercury5.jpg
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Caloris Basin
http//photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03104
http//www.solarviews.com/raw/merc/caloris.gif
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The effects of the Caloris impact
http//photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02445
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Tectonics on Mercury
Heavily Cratered Terrain
Smooth Plains
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Discovery Scarp
http//photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02446
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ICE on Mercury!?
http//www.nrao.edu/pr/2000/vla20/ background/merc
uryice/mercury.jpg
http//www.naic.edu/ehowell/aoradar/radarpage.htm
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Mercury at Sunset
http//www.cuyastro.org/gallery_planetary.html
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Mercurys orbit
http//www.astro.keele.ac.uk/rdj/planets/images/p
lanet_solarsystem.gif
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Mercury over a month
http//astro.unl.edu/naap/ssm/elongation.html
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Phases of Mercury
http//www.weasner.com/etx/guests/2005/guests_plan
ets.html
http//www.astro.uni.wroc.pl/vt-2004/mt-2003/mt-me
rcury-orbit.html
Venus, as an example
http//www.spacestationinfo.com/phases-of-venus.ht
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Mercury transits the Sun
May 7, 2003
http//www.ngc7000.org/cam/venus.html
http//sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2006_11_06
/
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Mercurys 32 Spin-Orbit Resonance
http//history.nasa.gov/SP-423/p4.htm