Outline of Mercury (planet)

Overview of and topical guide to 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.

## Classification of Mercury

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

## Location of Mercury

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* 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

## Movement of Mercury

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* Mercury's orbit and rotation
* Transit of Mercury

## Features of Mercury

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* 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

## Natural satellites of Mercury

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* Hypothetical moon of Mercury

## History of Mercury

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History of Mercury –

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

### Exploration of Mercury

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Exploration of Mercury –

#### Flyby missions to explore Mercury

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* Mariner 10 –

#### Direct missions to explore Mercury

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* MESSENGER –

## Future of Mercury exploration

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### Proposed missions to explore Mercury

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* BepiColombo
* Mercury-P
* Colonization of Mercury

## Mercury in popular culture

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* Mercury in fiction

## See also

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

## References

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## External links

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Mercury at Wikipedia's sister projects

* Definitions from Wiktionary
* Media from Commons
* News from Wikinews
* Quotations from Wikiquote
* Texts from Wikisource
* Textbooks from Wikibooks
* Resources from Wikiversity

* 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

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Geography|

| General|

* Albedo features
* Atmosphere
* Features
* Magnetic field

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Regions|

* Quadrangles

Quadrangles|

* Bach
* Beethoven
* Borealis
* Debussy
* Derain
* Discovery
* Eminescu
* Hokusai
* Kuiper
* Michelangelo
* Neruda
* Shakespeare
* Raditladi
* Tolstoj
* Victoria

Mountains and
volcanoes|

* Caloris Montes

Plains and
plateaus|

* Apārangi Planitia
* Borealis Planitia
* Budh Planitia
* Caloris Planitia
* Mearcair Planitia
* Odin Planitia
* Sobkou Planitia
* Stilbon Planitia
* Suisei Planitia
* Tir Planitia
* Utaridi Planitia

Canyons and
valleys|

* Arecibo Catena
* Arecibo Vallis
* Goldstone Catena
* Goldstone Vallis
* Haystack Catena
* Haystack Vallis
* Simeiz Vallis

Ridges and
rupes|

* Antoniadi Dorsum
* Adventure Rupes
* Beagle Rupes
* Discovery Rupes
* Enterprise Rupes
* Hero Rupes
* Resolution Rupes
* Santa María Rupes
* Victoria Rupes

Basins and
fossae|

* Caloris Basin
* Pantheon Fossae
* Raditladi Basin
* Rembrandt Basin
* Skinakas (hypothetical basin)

Craters|

* Abedin
* Abu Nuwas
* Africanus Horton
* Ahmad Baba
* Ailey
* Aksakov
* Akutagawa
* Al-Akhtal
* Alencar
* Al-Hamadhani
* Al-Jāhiz
* Alver
* Amaral
* Amru Al-Qays
* Andal
* Aneirin
* Angelou
* Anguissola
* Anyte
* Apollodorus
* Aristoxenes
* Aśvaghoṣa
* Atget
* Bach
* Balagtas
* Balanchine
* Baranauskas
* Balzac
* Bartók
* Barma
* Bashō
* Beckett
* Beethoven
* Bek
* Belinskij
* Bello
* Benoit
* Berkel
* Bernini
* Bjornson
* Boccaccio
* Boethius
* Botticelli
* Brahms
* Bramante
* Brontë
* Bruegel
* Brunelleschi
* Burns
* Byron
* Callicrates
* Camões
* Carducci
* Carolan
* Calvino
* Cervantes
* Cézanne
* Chaikovskij
* Chao Meng-Fu
* Chekov
* Chesterton
* Chiang Kʻui
* Chŏng Chʼŏl
* Chopin
* Chu Ta
* Coleridge
* Copland
* Copley
* Couperin
* Cunningham
* Dali
* Dario
* De Graft
* Debussy
* Degas
* Delacroix
* Derain
* Derzhavin
* Desprez
* Dickens
* Dominici
* Donne
* Dostoevskij
* Dowland
* Durer
* Dvorak
* Eastman
* Eitoku
* Eminescu
* Enheduanna
* Enwonwu
* Equiano
* Faulkner
* Fet
* Firdousi
* Flaubert
* Flaiano
* Futabatei
* Gainsborough
* Gauguin
* Geddes
* Ghiberti
* Gibran
* Giotto
* Glinka
* Gluck
* Goethe
* Gogol
* Goya
* Grieg
* Guido d'Arezzo
* Hals
* Han Kan
* Handel
* Harunobu
* Hauptmann
* Hawthorne
* Haydn
* Heine
* Hemingway
* Hesiod
* Hiroshige
* Hitomaro
* Hodgkins
* Hokusai
* Holbein
* Holberg
* Holst
* Homer
* Horace
* Hovnatanian
* Hugo
* Hun Kal
* Hurley
* Ibsen
* Ictinus
* Imhotep
* Ives
* Izquierdo
* Janáček
* Jokai
* Judah Ha-Levi
* Kalidasa
* Karsh
* Keats
* Kenko
* Kertész
* Khansa
* Kipling
* Kōshō
* Kuan Han-Chʻing
* Kuiper
* Kulthum
* Kunisada
* Kurosawa
* Lange
* Larrocha
* Leopardi
* Lermontov
* Lessing
* Li Chʻing-Chao
* Li Po
* Liang Kʻai
* Liszt
* Lovecraft
* Lu Hsun
* Lysippus
* Ma Chih-Yuan
* Machaut
* Mahler
* Mansart
* Mansur
* March
* Mark Twain
* Martí
* Martial
* Matabei
* Matisse
* Melville
* Mena
* Mendes Pinto
* Michelangelo
* Mickiewicz
* Milton
* Mistral
* Mofolo
* Molière
* Monet
* Monteverdi
* Moody
* Mozart
* Munch
* Munkácsy
* Murasaki
* Mussorgskij
* Myron
* Nabokov
* Nampeyo
* Navoi
* Nawahi
* Neruda
* Nureyev
* Nervo
* Neumann
* Nizami
* Okyo
* Oskison
* Ovid
* Petrarch
* Phidias
* Picasso
* Poe
* Polygnotus
* Praxiteles
* Prokofiev
* Qi Baishi
* Rachmaninoff
* Raden Saleh
* Raditladi
* Rameau
* Raphael
* Rembrandt
* Renoir
* Rivera
* Rizal
* Rodin
* Rudaki
* Sander
* Scarlatti
* Schubert
* Shakespeare
* Sholem Aleichem
* Sinan
* Stravinsky
* Sullivan
* Sveinsdóttir
* Titian
* To Ngoc Van
* Tolstoj
* Velázquez
* Verdi
* Villa-Lobos
* Vivaldi
* Vyasa
* Xiao Zhao
* Yeats
* Zola

Other|

* Geology
* Ghost craters
* Inter-crater plains

Moons|

* Hypothetical moon of Mercury

Astronomy|

| Transits|

* Earth
* Mars

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Asteroids|

* Mercury-crossing asteroids

Exploration|

| Current
and past|

* Mariner 10 (1973–1975)
* MESSENGER (2004–2015)
* BepiColombo (2018–present)

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Proposed|

* Mercury-P (~2031)

See also|

* Colonization of Mercury

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