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Keywords: astronaut, Mercury, Redstone
![Автопортрет астронавта на орбите](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/09/18/0001270116/selfportrait_iss032_960.preview.jpg)
18.09.2012
Is it art? Earlier this month, space station astronaut Aki Hoshide (Japan) recorded this striking image while helping to augment the capabilities of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). Visible in this outworldly assemblage...
![Весь Меркурий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/06/12/0001288992/merc.preview.jpg)
12.06.2013
For the first time, the entire surface of planet Mercury has been mapped. Detailed observations of the innermost planet's surprising crust have been ongoing since the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft first passed Mercury in 2008 and began orbiting in 2011.
![Северный Меркурий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/12/02/0001273726/Lawrence_3aMercurycomposite900c.preview.jpg)
1.12.2012
Innermost planet Mercury would probably not be a good location for an interplanetary winter olympics. But new results based on data from the Mercury orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft indicate that it does have substantial water ice in permanently shadowed regions within craters near its north pole.
![Первый день МЕССЕНДЖЕРа](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/10/10/0001254130/mercuryMonoColorMap_messenger1000.preview.jpg)
8.10.2011
One solar day on a planet is the length of time from noon to noon. A solar day lasts 24 hours on planet Earth. On Mercury a solar day is about 176 Earth days long.
![Юго-западный Меркурий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217534/merc4_m10_big.preview.gif)
12.02.2000
The planet Mercury resembles a moon. Mercury's old surface is heavily cratered like many moons. Mercury is larger than most moons but smaller than Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's moon Titan. Mercury is much denser and more massive than any moon, though, because it is made mostly of iron.
![Меркурий - самая близкая к Солнцу планета](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178937/merc_marin10.preview.gif)
14.08.1995
This picture was compiled from images taken by the NASA spacecraft Mariner 10 which flew by the planet three times in 1974. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, the second hottest planet (Venus gets hotter), and the second smallest planet (Pluto is smaller).
![Меркурий с "Маринера"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/04/24/0001189638/mercury2_mariner10_big.preview.gif)
16.12.1996
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, remains the most mysterious of the Solar System's inner planets. Hiding in the Sun's glare it is a difficult target for Earth bound observers.
![Меркурий - ад, покрытый кратерами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/04/0001205457/merc2_m10_big.preview.gif)
1.01.1999
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.
![Поверхность Меркурия](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/06/22/0001252328/mercurymulticolor_messenger_900.preview.jpg)
16.06.2011
The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft recently completed over 100 orbits of Mercury. Messenger's cameras have recorded detailed pictures utilizing eight different colors across visible and near infrared light, exploring the surface composition and looking for clues to the history and evolution of the solar system's innermost planet.
![Торжественный финал на рассвете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/06/06/0001252072/2011may31planets_argerich900.preview.jpg)
4.06.2011
After more than a month, the lovely lineup of four naked-eye planets in dawn skies is coming to a close. Still, on May 31st a slender Moon joined the grouping along the eastern horizon for a final celestial performance, presented in this early morning scene from a beach near Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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