... by composition: . terrestrial or rocky planets : Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars: . ... and metal and have relatively high densities, slow rotation, solid surfaces, no rings and few satellites. jovian or gas planets ...
... To be within the habitable zone , where surface temperatures allowing liquid water are possible, Kepler-186f orbits close , within 53 million kilometers (about the Mercury-Sun distance) of the M dwarf star, once every 130 days. ...
... Sharper new images taken last week and released yesterday indicate, as expected, that most of the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is dark and heavily cratered like our Moon and the planet Mercury . ...
... Luna 2 . impact on the surface of the Moon 1959 (USSR) . Luna 3 . ... took the first close-up images of the Martian surface (22 in all) as it flew by the ... revealing huge volcanoes on the Martian surface, as well as giant canyon systems ...
... More than 20 spacecraft have visited Venus including Venera 9 , which landed on the surface, and Magellan , which used radar to peer through the clouds and make a map of the surface . ...
... More than 20 spacecraft have visited Venus including Venera 9, which landed on the surface, and Magellan , which used radar to peer through the clouds and make a map of the surface. ...
... More than 20 spacecraft have visited Venus including Venera 9 , which landed on the surface, and Magellan , which used radar to peer through the clouds and make a map of the surface. ...
... These planets and their surfaces may be heavily modified by the last, big collision they experience (e.g. the largely metal composition of Mercury or the Moon ). ...
... classified as a terrestrial "planet" along with Mercury , Venus , Earth and Mars ... From our perspective on the Earth's surface we see two small bulges, one in the ... comprise about 16% of the Moon's surface) are huge impact craters that were later ...
... Mercury's youngest large impact basin , Caloris was subsequently filled in by lavas that appear orange in the mosaic. ... Craters made after the flooding have excavated material from beneath the surface lavas. ...