Explore Mercury
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Mercury, the innermost planet of the solar system, is a little bigger than the Earth's Moon. ...
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Mercury has very little atmosphere. The planet's small size means that its gravity is too weak ...
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Mercury is the only terrestrial planet other than the Earth that has a significant magnetic ...
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If Uranus is the "tilted planet", Mercury might be called the "upright planet". The spin axis ...
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All of the relevant information about Mercury collected on one page, including details about size, orbit ...
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Here are two stories about Mercury, one of the gods in the Roman pantheon. Mercury was identified ...
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A table containing information about the spacecraft that have visited Mercury ...
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Access wonderful captioned photos and illustrations that will inspire and excite you. ...
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These are links to other great web sites about Mercury. But beware: you don't want to get ...
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Research Highlights
Glaciovolcanoes, they're called, these rumbling mountains where the orange-red fire of magma meets the frozen blue of glaciers. Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which erupted recently, is but one of...
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