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Keywords: astronaut, Mercury, Redstone
![Прохождение Меркурия по диску Солнца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/05/08/0001190085/merctrans_sohoeit_4pan.preview.jpg)
8.05.2003
Can you spot the planet? The diminutive disk of Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, spent about five hours crossing in front of the enormous solar disk yesterday (Wednesday, May 7th), as viewed from the general vicinity of planet Earth.
![Меркурий над горизонтом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/04/12/0001188993/mercurysky_casado_c1.preview.jpg)
12.04.2003
Have you ever seen the planet Mercury? Because Mercury orbits so close to the Sun, it never wanders far from the Sun in Earth's sky. If trailing the Sun, Mercury will be visible low on the horizon for only a short while before sunset.
![Котловина Калорис на Меркурии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/24/0001179190/caloris_m10_big.preview.gif)
20.01.1996
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has a surface with so many craters it resembles the Earth's Moon. The largest surface feature on Mercury is the Caloris Basin, which resulted from a collision with an asteroid.
![Меркурий: ад, покрытый кратерами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/04/0001205456/merc2_m10.preview.gif)
30.11.1997
Mercury's surface looks similar to our Moon's. Each is heavily cratered and made of rock. Mercury's diameter is about 4800 km, while the Moon's is slightly less at about 3500 km (compared with about 12,700 km for the Earth). But Mercury is unique in many ways.
![Три планеты над морем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/07/06/0001206644/mvsJun28_sparkes_cwp430.preview.jpg)
2.07.2005
On Tuesday, June 28th, the setting Sun flooded the horizon with a beautiful warm light in this view from the beach beside the pier at Brighton in Adelaide, South Australia. The Sun also illuminated three planets gathered in the western sky, Mercury, Venus, and Saturn.
![Три планеты с горы Гамильтон](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/06/30/0001206559/mvs062505_gabany_f78.preview.jpg)
30.06.2005
Venus, Mercury, and Saturn wandered close together in western evening skies last week. On Saturnday, June 25, astronomer R. Jay GaBany recorded this snapshot of their eye-catching planetary conjunction, from historic Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, California, USA.
![Нэшвилл: четыре планеты над горизонтом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/28/0001167788/plan4_koehn_sm.preview.jpg)
9.02.2001
So far this February, evening skies have been blessed with a glorious Moon and three bright planets; Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. But just last week, on January 30th, an extreme wide-angle lens allowed astrophotographer Larry Koehn to capture this twilight view of Moon and four planets
![Меркурий и Венера на западе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/04/02/0001197383/mvmar29_westlake_c1.preview.jpg)
2.04.2004
Doing their part in the ongoing dance of the planets, Mercury and Venus both reached their greatest elongation or maximum apparent distance from the Sun only a few days ago, on March 29th. Eager...
![Выщербленный Меркурий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/24/0001179292/merfault_m10_big.preview.gif)
21.01.1996
The surface of the planet Mercury is not without fault. In this case, however, "fault" refers to unusual surface features that are the topic of much speculation. The above fault line is called Santa Maria Rupes, and runs through many prominent craters.
![Лучевой кратер Дегаз на Меркурии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/04/24/0001189629/degas_merc_mar10_big.preview.gif)
8.12.1996
Like the Earth's Moon, Mercury is scarred with craters, testifying to an intense bombardment during the early history of the Solar System. In 1974, the Mariner 10 spacecraft surveyed this innermost planet up close, producing the only detailed images of its tortured surface.
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