Exploration of Mercury
[/caption] As one of the planets visible with the unaided eye, Mercury has been known before recorded history. But until the development of the telescope, the exploration of the Mercury was only...
View ArticleHow Long Does it Take Mercury to Orbit the Sun?
[/caption] Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and so it’s the fastest to orbit the Sun. In fact, Mercury only takes 88 days to orbit the Sun. In other words, Mercury’s orbit only takes 24% as...
View ArticleMercury Revolution
[/caption] In scientific terms, an orbital revolution is the amount of time it takes for one object to orbit completely around another. So a Mercury revolution is the amount of time it takes for...
View ArticleLength of Year on Mercury
[/caption] The length of year on Mercury is 87.969 days. In other words, it takes almost 88 Earth days for Mercury to complete one orbit around the Sun. Mercury completes just over 4 orbits for each...
View ArticleMercury Diagram
[/caption] Here’s a Mercury diagram, showing the interior of planet Mercury. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, orbiting at an average distance of 57.9 million km from the Sun. It’s also the...
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Alan Shepard and MESSENGER Stamps Unveiled at Kennedy Space Center Ceremony
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – 50 Years ago this week, Alan B. Shepard became the first American to be launched into space. Shepard blasted off on May 5, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA and...
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MESSENGER Unveiling Mercurys Hidden Secrets
[/caption] NASA’s MESSENGER probe to Mercury, the scorched, innermost planet of our solar system, is sending back so much startling and revolutionary data and crystal clear images that the results are...
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NASA Planetary Science Trio Honored as ‘Best of What’s New’ in 2011-...
[/caption] A trio of NASA’s Planetary Science mission’s – Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Dawn and MESSENGER – has been honored by Popular Science magazine and selected as ‘Best of What’s New’ in...
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How Long is Day on Mercury?
Mercury is one of the most unusual planets in our Solar System, at least by the standards of us privileged Earthlings. Despite being the closest planet to our Sun, it is not the hottest (that honor...
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What is the Weather Like on Mercury?
With the dawning of the Space Age in the 1950s, human beings were no longer confined to studying the Solar planets and other astronomical bodies with Earth-based instruments alone. Instead crewed...
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