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Reference Sites (see also Solar System overview)
- General Information: NASA Mercury page;
Solarviews.com Mercury page;
The Nine Planets Mercury page;
AAAA (American Association of Amateur Astronomers) page;
JPL Mercury pages;
University of Oulu page;
Astronomy for Kids page;
space.com reference pages;
Virtual Journey into the Universe pages.
- Observation: space.com page;
Maximum elongation calculator.
- Transits: space.com transit history page.
- Perihelion Precession: José Wudka's page.
- Images and Quizzes: Alwyn Botha's The-Solar-System
Mercury pages;
Piotr Masek's Mariner
6/7 and Mariner
10 Image Browsers.
Past Exploration Missions (Planetary
Society overview page)
Future Exploration Missions
- MESSENGER
(MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging):
NASA mission launched in August 2004; Will fly past
Venus three times and Mercury twice starting in 2008 before starting
a (Earth) year-long orbital study of Mercury.
- Bepi
Colombo: ESA Cornerstone mission (previously called just
Mercury Orbiter) to explore the planet Mercury, scheduled for
launch in Jun 2011 in collaboration with Japan's ISAS; will reach
Mercury after 2.5 years or more.
- (An additional lander mission planned by ESA was cancelled
in 2003.)
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