- This
means that one side of
Mercury will
remain in
sunlight for one
Mercurian year of 88
Earth days;
while during the next orbit, that side will be...
-
Mercurian: 414
craters (7.9%) Lunar: 1,624
craters (31.1%) Martian: 1,092
craters (20.9%) Venusian: 900
craters (17.2%) Others: 1,198 craters...
- the
MESSENGER spacecraft,
which discovered magnesium in the
Mercurian exosphere. The
Mercurian exosphere consists of a
variety of
species originating either...
- Mercury.
Different types of
features are
named after different things:
Mercurian ridges are
called dorsa, and are
named after astronomers who made detailed...
- The
exploration of
Mercury has a
minor role in the
space interests of the world. It is the
least explored inner planet. As of 2015, the
Mariner 10 and...
-
Mercury is the
closest planet to the Sun and
lacks any
natural satellites. An
undiscovered moon
orbiting the
planet was
hypothesized to
exist in the early...
- Dutch-American
astronomer Gerard Kuiper in 1976. It is one of only 2
Mercurian craters which are
named not
after artists, and one of very few
cases when...
- on the east edge of Mare
Undarum near the
eastern lunar limb
Boethius (
Mercurian crater),
located on
Mercury Boethusians, a sect or
community in Judea...
-
Everard Mercurian (1514 – 1
August 1580) was the
fourth Superior General of the
Society of Jesus. Born 'Lardinois' into a
humble family in Marcourt, near...
- JG6, an
Atira asteroid with an intra-
Mercurian perihelion 2010 XB11, an
Atira asteroid with an intra-
Mercurian perihelion "LOC file of the
solar system...
