A mission that could reach Mercury on solar sails alone
Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...
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Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds
Mercury has long puzzled scientists as it possesses many qualities that aren't common to other solar system planets. These ...
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Planet Mercury
Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet. Mercury is slightly larger than our Moon - 15,329 kilometres around its equator. Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, ...
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Scientists say that the planet Mercury is still shrinking
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Mercury redux
The Mercury flyby of the MESSENGER (Mercury surface, space environment, geochemistry and ranging) probe was the first of three braking manoeuvres for the spacecraft, in preparation for its ...
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Mercury's Tail (IMAGE)
Caption This is an image of Mercury's tail obtained from combining a full day of data from a camera aboard the STEREO-A spacecraft. The reflected sunlight off the planet's surface results in a ...