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Keywords: crater, Mercury
![Кратеры Мессье на стереофотографии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/12/11/0001711153/MessierCrater3d_vantuyne1024c.preview.jpg)
10.12.2020
Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier from his famous 18th century catalog. His name is also given to these two large and remarkable craters on the Moon.
![Натриевый след Меркурия](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/07/08/0001675642/MercuryTail_Alessandrini_960.preview.jpg)
7.07.2020
What is that fuzzy streak extending from Mercury? Long exposures of our Solar System's innermost planet may reveal something unexpected: a tail. Mercury's thin atmosphere contains small amounts of sodium that glow when excited by light from the Sun. Sunlight also liberates these molecules from Mercury's surface and pushes them away.
![Заход Меркурия и полумесяца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/04/15/0001360656/EarthshineVsMercury_8168-netClaro1048.preview.jpg)
14.04.2016
Innermost planet Mercury and a thin crescent Moon are never found far from the Sun in planet Earth's skies. Taken near dusk on April 8, this colorful evening skyscape shows them both setting toward the western horizon just after the Sun.
![Кратер Гершель на Мимасе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/08/13/0001844701/PIA12572_1200.preview.jpg)
12.08.2022
Mimas, small 400 kilometer-diameter moon of Saturn, is host to 130 kilometer-diameter Herschel crater, one of the larger impact craters in the entire Solar System. The robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn in 2010 recorded...
![Тихо и Клавий на рассвете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/07/18/0001841870/Dawn-in-Clavius-Tycho-07-07-22_1024.preview.jpg)
15.07.2022
South is up in this dramatic telescopic view of the lunar terminator and the Moon's rugged southern highlands. The lunar landscape was captured on July 7 with the moon at its first quarter phase.
![Меркурий с пролетающего аппарата "БепиКоломбо"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/06/28/0001839438/Mercury_BepiColombo_960.preview.jpg)
27.06.2022
Which part of the Moon is this? No part -- because this is the planet Mercury. Mercury's old surface is heavily cratered like that of Earth's Moon. Mercury, while only slightly larger than Luna, is much denser and more massive than any Solar System moon because it is made mostly of iron.
![Сумерки на западном небе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/04/01/0001404477/SSH_0255j-BB1024.preview.jpg)
30.03.2018
A slender crescent Moon and inner planets Venus and Mercury never wander far from the Sun in planet Earth's skies. In the fading evening twilight of March 18, they line up near the western horizon in this atmospheric skyscape.
![Внутри метеоритного кратера Бэрринджер](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/08/11/0001235793/barringer_rowell.preview.jpg)
11.08.2009
What happens when a meteor hits the ground? Usually nothing much, as most meteors are small, and indentations they make are soon eroded away. About 50,000 years ago, however, a large meteor created Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA. Also known simply as Meteor Crater, the resulting impact basin spans over a kilometer.
![Кратер Бэрринджер на Земле](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192421/azcrater_lpi_big.preview.jpg)
16.11.1997
What happens when a meteor hits the ground? Usually nothing much, as most meteors are small, and indentations they make are soon eroded away. 49,000 years ago, however, a large meteor created Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, pictured above. Barringer is over a kilometer across.
![Весь Меркурий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/04/29/0001467945/mercur.preview.png)
27.04.2019
Only six years ago, the entire surface of planet Mercury was finally mapped. Detailed observations of the innermost planet's surprising crust began when the robotic have been ongoing since the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft first passed Mercury in 2008 and continued until its controlled crash landing in 2015.
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