... shared the sky with the lovely Pleiades star cluster and wandering planet Mercury ... Bright, innermost planet Mercury lies near the bottom of the field. ... Mercury will remain near the Pleiades, low in the west after sunset over the coming ...
... the MESSENGER spacecraft currently orbiting the Sun from the distance of Mercury ... Mercury, Venus , Earth , Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are all visible in the above ...
... Explanation: Venus, Mercury, and Saturn wandered close together in western evening ... Mercury is nearby on the right and Saturn is below and left, closest to the horizon. ...
... of three of them, Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury (left to right) dropping toward the ... Similar in brightness to planet Mercury, the star Elnath (Beta Tauri) is also ... into the glare of the setting Sun, but Mercury and Venus remain low in the west at ...
... of the largest young craters on Mercury, 114 kilometer (71 mile) diameter Hokusai ... The first to orbit Mercury, since 2011 MESSENGER has conducted scientific ... Sun's gravity, MESSENGER is predicted to impact the surface of Mercury on April 30 ...
... swung back past the Earth, eight years ago, on its way in toward the planet Mercury ... spacecraft is now in orbit around Mercury and has recently concluded the first ...
... In a cross-Solar System interplanetary first, our Earth was photographed during the same day from both Mercury and Saturn ... the Earth-Moon system is seen against a dark background, as captured by the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft now orbiting Mercury ...
... The camera has also captured periodic Comet Encke, Mercury, and Earth, with the Sun cropped out of the frame at the right, the ... Mercury is closest, but both planets are still so bright they create sharp vertical lines in the camera's detector. ...
... Explanation: The sprawling Caloris basin on Mercury is one of the solar system's ... color mosaic based on image data from the Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft ...