Mercury

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NASA's STEREO-A observatory crosses paths with a comet, solar wind, and Mercury

Jeff Spry

Jun 10, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Watch Earth zoom by as a spacecraft passes us on its way (eventually) to Mercury

Phil Plait

Apr 13, 2020

A view of Earth from BepiColombo as it swung by our home planet on 10 April, 2020 on its way to Mercury. Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Did brutally-hot, barren Mercury once hold the ingredients to support life?

Jeff Spry

Mar 27, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Watch a rare transit of Mercury across the Sun on Monday

Phil Plait

Nov 8, 2019

A composite image shows the entire transit of Mercury from 9 May 2016, as seen by NASA’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO/Genna Duberstein

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: impact craters

Why do some impact craters have rays?

Phil Plait

Jan 7, 2019

A mosaic of Mercury taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft in 2008, showing impact craters with tremendously long ray systems. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: impact craters

Finally, a mission to Mercury is now taking off

Elizabeth Rayne

Oct 22, 2018

image of ESA Mercury mission BepiColombo

Tag: star stuff

Star Stuff: What did Mercury ever do to you?

Summer Ash

Dec 7, 2017

Tag: star stuff

Take a spin around this incredible new USGS topographical map of Mercury

Jeff Spry

May 10, 2016

Watch Mercury make a rare morning transit of the sun

Jeff Spry

May 9, 2016

Marvel at MESSENGER'S final Mercury images before its fatal plunge

Jeff Spry

Apr 30, 2015

This just in: NASA announces they've found water on Mercury!

Matthew Jackson

Jan 14, 2013

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