... 2015 January 15 . Venus and Mercury at Sunset . Image Credit Copyright : Tamas Ladanyi ( TWAN ) . ... Explanation: Inner planets Venus and Mercury can never wander far from the Sun in Earth's sky. ...
... July 2, 1998 . X-ray Transit Of Mercury . Credit: ISAS , Yohkoh Project . ... This sequence of false color X-ray images captures a rare event - the passage or transit of planet Mercury in front of the Sun ...
... 2011 March 31 . MESSENGER at Mercury . Credit: NASA / JHU APL / CIW . ... Explanation: On March 17, the MESSENGER spacecraft became the first to orbit Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet . ...
... 2004 April 2 . Mercury and Venus in the West . Credit Copyright: Jimmy Westlake ( Colorado Mountain College ) . ... Doing their part in the ongoing dance of the planets , Mercury and Venus both reached their greatest elongation or maximum ...
... 2006 November 10 . Mercury and the Chromosphere . Credit Copyright: Phil Jones . ... Explanation: Enjoying Wednesday's transit of Mercury from Dallas, Texas, astronomer Phil Jones recorded this detailed image of ...
... 2013 June 12 . All of Mercury . Image Credit: NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington . ... Washington . Explanation: For the first time, the entire surface of planet Mercury has been mapped. ...
... 2008 February 4 . A Spider Shaped Crater on Mercury . Credit: MESSENGER , NASA , JHU APL , CIW . ... Credit: MESSENGER , NASA , JHU APL , CIW . Explanation: Why does this crater on Mercury look like a spider? ...
... 2010 April 7 . Venus and Mercury in the West . Image Credit Copyright : Manu Arregi Biziola . ... Venus (left) and Mercury (right) are near their much anticipated conjunction in the early evening sky. ...
... 2008 October 8 . Mercury as Revealed by MESSENGER . Credit: MESSENGER , NASA , JHU APL , CIW . ... Explanation: The planet Mercury has been known since history has been recorded, but parts of the Solar System's innermost ...
... 2012 April 26 . Morning, Moon, and Mercury . Image Credit Copyright : Stephen Mudge . ... Image Credit Copyright : Stephen Mudge . Explanation: Last week Mercury wandered far to the west of the Sun. ...