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Keywords: crater, Mercury
![Меркурий и Юпитер на закате](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/03/18/0001250468/GS_20110315_JupMerc900.preview.jpg)
18.03.2011
When warm sunset hues begin to fade, two celestial beacons now shine in the evening twilight, Mercury and Jupiter. Wandering away from the Sun in planet Earth's sky, Mercury will offer good views this month as spring approaches in the northern hemisphere where the ecliptic plane makes a steep angle with the western horizon.
![Неожиданная валентинка. От астероида](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217531/erosheart_near.preview.gif)
14.02.2000
Maybe the Moon owns our hearts, but this won't stop the occasional asteroid from sending us a valentine. Friday, to the surprise of many, the NEAR mission on approach to asteroid 433 EROS photographed what appears to be a heart-shaped depression.
![Эрос с орбиты](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217529/erosorbit1_near_big.preview.jpg)
16.02.2000
On February 14th, the NEAR spacecraft became the first artificial moon of an asteroid. Captured by the gentle gravity of a 20 mile long slipper-shaped mountain of rock, NEAR recorded this premier image while orbiting asteroid 433 Eros at a distance of about 200 miles.
![Цель: кратер Кабеус](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/10/08/0001236398/391631main_southpole2_c600.preview.jpg)
8.10.2009
About 100 kilometers from the Moon's South Pole, 100 kilometer wide crater Cabeus is the target for two LCROSS mission spacecraft on course to impact the Moon tomorrow. The shadowed crater is strongly foreshortened in this mosaic, a representative view of the region for earthbound telescopes.
![Кратеры Мессье на стереофотографии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/12/11/0001237299/MessierCrater3d_vantuyneC900.preview.jpg)
11.12.2009
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.
![Падение астероида 65 миллионов лет назад](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217520/chicxulub_sharpton_big.preview.gif)
26.02.2000
What killed the dinosaurs? Their sudden disappearance 65 million years ago, along with about 70 percent of all species then living on Earth, is known as the K-T event (Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction event). Geologists and paleontologists often entertain the idea that a large asteroid
![Лунные кратеры Лангрен и Петавий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/11/11/0001535718/PetaviusLangrenus_Poupeau_960.preview.jpg)
11.11.2019
The history of the Moon is partly written in its craters. Pictured here is a lunar panorama taken from Earth featuring the large craters Langrenus, toward the left, and Petavius, toward the right. The craters formed in separate impacts.
!["Мессенджер" показывает Меркурий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/07/23/0001386604/mercuryflyby2_messenger_960.preview.jpg)
23.07.2017
Mercury had never been seen like this before. In 2008, the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft buzzed past Mercury for the second time and imaged terrain mapped previously only by comparatively crude radar. The featured image was recorded as MESSENGER looked back 90 minutes after passing, from an altitude of about 27,000 kilometers.
![Сентябрьское утреннее небо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/09/21/0001389939/conjunction_170918_ladanyi_web.preview.jpg)
21.09.2017
The Moon, three planets, and a bright star gathered near the ecliptic plane in the September 18 morning sky over Veszprem Castle, Hungary. In this twilight skyscape, Mercury and Mars still shine close to the eastern horizon, soon to disappear in the glare of the Sun.
![Полет над Меркурием от "Мессенджера"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/11/0001393990/mercur.preview.png)
11.12.2017
What would it be like to fly over the planet Mercury? Images and data taken from NASA's robotic MESSENGER spacecraft that orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015 have been digitally combined to envision a virtual flight that highlights much of the hot planet's surface.
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