Outline of Mercury (planet)

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mercury:

Mercury – smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Its orbital period (about 88 Earth days) is less than any other planet in the Solar System. Seen from Earth, it appears to move around its orbit in about 116 days. It has no known natural satellites. It is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger to the gods.

• Astronomical object
  • Gravitationally rounded object
    • Planet
      • Planet of the Solar System
        • Inferior planet
        • Inner planet
      • Terrestrial planet

• Milky Way Galaxy – barred spiral galaxy
  • Orion Arm – a spiral arm of the Milky Way
    • Solar System – the Sun and the objects that orbit it, including 8 planets, the planet closest to the Sun being Mercury
      • Mercury's orbit

• Mercury's orbit and rotation
• Transit of Mercury

• Mercury's magnetic field
• Atmosphere of Mercury
• Mercury's extraterrestrial sky
• Geology of Mercury
  • Geological features on Mercury
    • Craters on Mercury
      • Ghost craters on Mercury
    • Inter-crater plains on Mercury
• Albedo features on Mercury
• Quadrangles on Mercury

• Hypothetical moon of Mercury

History of Mercury –

• Pre-Tolstojan –
• Tests of general relativity –
• Mercury-crossing minor planets –

Exploration of Mercury –

• Mariner 10 –

• MESSENGER –

• BepiColombo
• Mercury-P
• Colonization of Mercury

• Mercury in fiction

• Outline of astronomy
  • Outline of the Solar System
• Outline of space exploration

• Mariner 10 Atlas of Mercury – NASA
• Mercury nomenclature and map with feature names from the USGS planetary nomenclature page
• MESSENGER Mission web site
• Mercury QuickMap from MESSENGER web site
• 'BepiColombo', ESA's Mercury Mission 5 June 2013