Mercury in colors

22. 03. 2023
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The Messenger spacecraft is a planetary spacecraft from NASA's workshop to Mercury. It was launched from Earth in August 2004 and, after a difficult trajectory and two orbits around Venus, successfully settled in Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011. On this date, Mercury's research program from its orbit was launched, which was planned for at least one year but is ongoing.

The spacecraft sent the first color image of Mercury's surface to Earth. The colors shown are said to be invisible to the human eye, but natural and indicate the diverse presence of minerals, their chemical and physical composition. Perhaps the largest crater in our solar system, which is on Mercury in the northern hemisphere, attracts special attention. The crater has a diameter of 1400 km, is called the Caloris Basin and is estimated to have formed around 3,8 billion years ago.

The temperatures on the surface of Mercury and its hemisphere facing the Sun may set the temperature to almost 430 ° C. In the hemisphere, the frost is up to -180 ° C.

The atmosphere of Mercury is composed primarily of oxygen and sodium, hydrogen and helium. Helium probably comes from the sun's wind, although some of the gas can also be released from the planet's interior while the other elements are released from the surface and the meteoric material supplied by photo-ionization by the sun's incandescent sunlight. In the atmosphere, low levels of carbon dioxide and water molecules have also been observed, indicating volcanic activity on the planet.

Because of the very low density of the atmosphere, which can essentially be considered as a vacuum, there are no meteorological phenomena in Mercury's atmosphere that can be observed.

The average distance from Mercury from the Sun is 57,9 million km, which the planet will run once per 87,969 on the day. The planet rotates around its axis at 58,646 Earth Day.

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