Outline of Mercury (planet)
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mercury:
Mercury – smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Its orbital period (about 88 Earth days) is less than any other planet in the Solar System. Seen from Earth, it appears to move around its orbit in about 116 days. It has no known natural satellites. It is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger to the gods.
Classification of Mercury
[edit]Location of Mercury
[edit]- Milky Way Galaxy – barred spiral galaxy
- Orion Arm – a spiral arm of the Milky Way
- Solar System – the Sun and the objects that orbit it, including 8 planets, the planet closest to the Sun being Mercury
- Orion Arm – a spiral arm of the Milky Way
Movement of Mercury
[edit]Features of Mercury
[edit]- Mercury's magnetic field
- Atmosphere of Mercury
- Mercury's extraterrestrial sky
- Geology of Mercury
- Albedo features on Mercury
- Quadrangles on Mercury
Natural satellites of Mercury
[edit]History of Mercury
[edit]Exploration of Mercury
[edit]Flyby missions to explore Mercury
[edit]Direct missions to explore Mercury
[edit]Future of Mercury exploration
[edit]Proposed missions to explore Mercury
[edit]Mercury in popular culture
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]External links
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Mercury at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Mariner 10 Atlas of Mercury – NASA
- Mercury nomenclature and map with feature names from the USGS planetary nomenclature page
- MESSENGER Mission web site
- Mercury QuickMap from MESSENGER web site
- 'BepiColombo', ESA's Mercury Mission 5 June 2013
