Mercury
The View From Freedom 7
51 years ago today, on May 5, 1961, NASA launched the Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket carrying Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard…
MESSENGER Reveals Mercury’s Colors
[/caption] The subtle yet surprisingly varied colors of Mercury are revealed in the latest images from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, now…
Thin Skinned and Wrinkled, Mercury is Full of Surprises
[/caption] Until relatively recently, Mercury was one of the most poorly understood planets in the inner solar system. The MESSENGER…
Watch Mercury Get Smacked By CMEs
The bright object in the center of this video sequence is the planet Mercury, seen by NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft as…
MESSENGER Gets It Donne
[/caption] Named after the 17th-century metaphysical poet, Mercury's Donne crater was captured in this image by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The…
A Peek at a Pitch-Black Pit
[/caption] MESSENGER captured this high-resolution image of an elongated pit crater within the floor of the 355-km (220-mile) -wide crater…
Who Discovered Mercury?
[/caption] Mercury is one of the 5 planets visible with the unaided eye. Even thousands of years ago, ancient astronomers…
Mercury Down Under
[/caption] NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, about to wrap up its first full year in orbit around Mercury, captured this view of…
Degas: a Crater Painted Blue
[/caption] This image, acquired by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft on December 12, 2011, reveals the blue coloration of the 32-mile (52-km)…
Bright Peaks, Dark Shadows
[/caption] The 68-mile (109-km) -wide Amaral crater on Mercury reveals its brightly-tipped central peaks in this image, acquired by NASA's…