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7 Important Dates in Mercury History: Media

A brief history of the first planet from the Sun.

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Mercury
Computer-colored view of Mercury. Original photograph taken from the Messenger spacecraft.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun
Transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun, a composite of five separate images...
NASA/GSFC/TRACE/SMEX
curved space-time
The four dimensional space-time continuum itself is distorted in the vicinity of...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Mercury
Photo mosaic of Mercury, taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft, 1974.
NASA/JPL
Mercury's north pole
Mercury's north polar region, in a radar image obtained with the Arecibo radio telescope....
Courtesy of John Harmon, Arecibo Observatory
Messenger: Mercury
Image of Mercury captured by a camera aboard the Messenger spacecraft.
NASA/JHU/APL/Carnegie Institution of Washington