urn:nasa:pds:context:target:planet.mercury 1.3 1.13.0.0 Product_Context NAIF ID 199 2019-12-06 1.3 Upgrade for MESSENGER migration by PDS Radio Science Advisor. Format improvements for easier reading. 2018-11-18 1.2 From PDS Rings node. 2018-06-23 1.1 From PDS RINGS node. Added NAIF ID alias. Shortened description. 2016-10-01 1.0 Extracted metadata from PDS3 catalog, then modified to meet PDS4 requirements. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/mercuryfact.html Fact sheet maintained by NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet) Overview and summary list of orbital parameters and physical characteristics. Solomon, Sean C., Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson (editors). Mercury: The View After MESSENGER. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 583 pp., 2018. A review of knowledge about Mercury after conclusion of observations from the first spacecraft to orbit the planet, edited by the MESSENGER mission Principal Investigator, his deputy, and the Deputy Project Scientist. Topics include Mercury's chemical composition; the structure of its crust, lithosphere, mantle, and core; Mercury's modern and ancient magnetic field; Mercury's geology, including the planet's major geological units and their surface chemistry and mineralogy, its spectral reflectance characteristics, its craters and cratering history, its tectonic features and deformational history, its volcanic features and magmatic history, its distinctive hollows, and the frozen ices in its polar deposits; Mercury's exosphere and magnetosphere and the processes that govern their dynamics and their interaction with the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field; the formation and large-scale evolution of the planet; and current plans and needed capabilities to explore Mercury in the future. Vilas, Faith, Clark R. Chapman, and Mildred Shapley Matthews (editors). Mercury, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 794 pp., 1988. A compendium of knowledge about Mercury as of the mid-1980s, ten years after the Mariner 10 flybys and more than 20 years before MESSENGER entered Mercury orbit. Forty-seven collaborating authors contributed chapters on surface composition, stratigraphy, and geology; tectonics; history; dynamics; magnetic field; atmosphere; the puzzling icy polar deposits; and prospects for future exploration. Mercury Planet The innermost planet in the Solar System. One of the terrestrial (rocky) planets.