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Outline of Mercury (planet) 
Summary
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 edit
Location of Mercury edit
- 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
- Orion Arm – a spiral arm of the Milky Way
Movement of Mercury edit
Features of Mercury edit
Natural satellites of Mercury edit
History of Mercury edit
Exploration of Mercury edit
Flyby missions to explore Mercury edit
Direct missions to explore Mercury edit
Future of Mercury exploration edit
Proposed missions to explore Mercury edit
Mercury in popular culture edit
See also edit
References edit
External links edit
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