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Keywords: astronaut, Mercury, Redstone
![Горизонт Меркурия с "Мессенджера"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/01/21/0001225691/mercury03_messenger.preview.jpg)
21.01.2008
What would it look like to fly past Mercury? Just such an adventure was experienced last week by the MESSENGER spacecraft during its first flyby of the strange moon-like world nearest the Sun. Pictured above is the limb of Mercury seen by MESSENGER upon approach, from about 1 1/2 Earth diameters away.
![Похожий на паука кратер на Меркурии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/02/04/0001225909/craterspider_messenger.preview.jpg)
4.02.2008
Why does this crater on Mercury look like a spider? When the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft glided by the planet Mercury last month, it was able to image portions of the Sun's closest planet that had never been seen before.
![Меркурий: Дега -- кратер с лучевой системой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162200/degas_merc_mar10_big.preview.gif)
16.12.2000
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.
![Меркурий с "Маринера"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/10/0001198985/mercury2_mariner10.preview.jpg)
6.09.1998
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.
![Луна, Меркурий, Монако](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/03/18/0001204864/MoonMercMonaco_jacques_f42.preview.jpg)
18.03.2005
Low on the western horizon after sunset, a slender crescent Moon and wandering planet Mercury join the lights of Menton and Monaco along the French Riviera. Astronomer Vincent Jacques took advantage of this gorgeous...
![Вид на внутреннюю солнечную систему](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/07/15/0001207255/jul8_westlake_cs72.preview.jpg)
15.07.2005
Only Mars is missing from this reflective view of the major rocky bodies of the inner solar system. Captured on July 8th, the serene, twilight picture looks out over the Flat Tops Wilderness area from near Toponas, Colorado, USA and includes planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Earth's large natural satellite, the Moon.
![Яркая Венера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/11/0001166449/mvm_vsoske.preview.jpg)
8.03.2001
Have you seen a bright evening star in the western sky lately? That's no star, that's planet Venus the second "rock" from the Sun. Blazing at -4.6 magnitude, Venus, after the Sun and Moon, is the third brightest celestial body in planet Earth's sky.
![Стерео изображение Меркурия: кратеры в кратерах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/19/0001191012/stereomerc_mar10.preview.jpg)
12.01.1997
This Stereo image pair of craters on on Mercury was produced using data from NASA's robot explorer Mariner 10 which performed three close flybys of the Sun's closest companion, two in 1974 and one in 1975. However, the spacecraft was not equipped with a Stereo camera!
![Меркурий и Венера над Парижем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/04/12/0001244509/mercuryvenus_desmars.preview.jpg)
12.04.2010
Go outside tonight and see one of the more interesting planetary conjunctions of recent years. Just after sunset, the planets Mercury and Venus are visible quite near each other. Now Venus, being commonly discernible as one of the brightest objects in the sky, is frequently mistaken for an airplane.
![Луна встречается с Меркурием](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/05/12/0001227735/MercuryandMoon2_heden800.preview.jpg)
9.05.2008
On Tuesday, May 6, while standing on planet Earth and sweeping your binoculars along the western horizon just after sunset, you might have encountered this arresting skyscape. The view features a slender crescent Moon and bright planet Mercury separated on the sky by only about 2 degrees.
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