Mercury
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Terrestrial planet · Inner Solar System. The smallest planet and the innermost — a cratered, airless world orbited so far by two spacecraft. (mean distance 0.387 au, orbital period 0.241 years, diameter 4879 km; NASA Planetary Fact Sheet.) Not a place on Earth.
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- Story
- Terrestrial planet · Inner Solar System. The smallest planet and the innermost — a cratered, airless world orbited so far by two spacecraft. (mean distance 0.387 au, orbital period 0.241 years, diameter 4879 km; NASA Planetary Fact Sheet.) Not a place on Earth.
- Knowledge
- Mercury
- Connections
- Mariner 10
- MESSENGER
- BepiColombo
- Mariner 10 passes Mercury — the first spacecraft to reach it
- Mariner 10’s third and final Mercury pass
- MESSENGER’s first Mercury pass — the first visit since 1975
- MESSENGER enters orbit around Mercury — the first craft to do so
- MESSENGER strikes Mercury at the end of its mission
- BepiColombo’s first Mercury flyby
- BepiColombo’s sixth and final Mercury flyby
- BepiColombo Mercury orbit insertion — declared target
- Evidence
- Mean distances, orbital periods, diameters, masses and satellite counts for the Sun, planets and Pluto as published in the fact sheet.
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