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Before much was known about the planet, it received scant attention. Later, when it was incorrectly believed that it was <a href="/wiki/Tidal_locking" title="Tidal locking">tidally locked</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> creating a permanent dayside and nightside, stories mainly focused on the conditions of the two sides and the narrow region of permanent twilight between. Since that misconception was dispelled in the 1960s, the planet has again received less attention from fiction writers, and stories have largely concentrated on the harsh environmental conditions that come from the planet's proximity to the Sun.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_depictions">Early depictions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercury_in_fiction&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early depictions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Mercury_(planet)" title="Mercury (planet)">Mercury</a>'s closeness to the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> makes astronomical observations difficult, and throughout most of history little was consequently known about the planet, which was reflected in fiction writing.<sup id="cite_ref-SFEMercury_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEMercury-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has appeared as a <a href="/wiki/Setting_(narrative)" title="Setting (narrative)">setting</a> in fiction since at least the 1622 work <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%27Adone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="L'Adone (page does not exist)">L'Adone</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Adone" class="extiw" title="it:L'Adone">it</a>]</span></i> by <a href="/wiki/Giambattista_Marino" title="Giambattista Marino">Giambattista Marino</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1750 novel <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Relation_du_Monde_de_Mercure&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Relation du Monde de Mercure (page does not exist)">Relation du Monde de Mercure</a></i> (English title: <i>The World of Mercury</i>) by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chevalier_de_B%C3%A9thune&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chevalier de Béthune (page does not exist)">Chevalier de Béthune</a> is another early example which is unusual in not using the fictional extraterrestrial society for purposes of <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SFEMercury_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEMercury-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/W._S._Lach-Szyrma" title="W. S. Lach-Szyrma">W. S. Lach-Szyrma</a>'s 1883 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Aleriel,_or_A_Voyage_to_Other_Worlds" title="Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds">Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds</a></i>, Mercurians are depicted as living in the planet's atmosphere.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Munro_(author)" title="John Munro (author)">John Munro</a>'s 1897 novel <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Trip_to_Venus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Trip to Venus (page does not exist)">A Trip to Venus</a></i> portrays a brief visit to Mercury as well as Venus.<sup id="cite_ref-SFEMercury_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEMercury-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first English-language work of fiction set primarily on Mercury was <a href="/wiki/William_Wallace_Cook" title="William Wallace Cook">William Wallace Cook</a>'s 1905 novel <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adrift_in_the_Unknown,_or_Adventures_in_a_Queer_Realm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adrift in the Unknown, or Adventures in a Queer Realm (page does not exist)">Adrift in the Unknown, or Adventures in a Queer Realm</a></i>, a satire on United States capitalism.<sup id="cite_ref-SFEMercury_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEMercury-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Homer_Eon_Flint" title="Homer Eon Flint">Homer Eon Flint</a>'s 1919 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Lord_of_Death&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Lord of Death (page does not exist)">The Lord of Death</a>" depicts the ruins of a previous civilization now extinct on Mercury.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tidal_locking">Tidal locking</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercury_in_fiction&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Tidal locking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(planet)#Spin-orbit_resonance" title="Mercury (planet)">Mercury (planet) § Spin-orbit resonance</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orbital_resonance_of_Mercury_horizontal.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="After one orbit, Mercury has rotated 1.5 times, so after two complete orbits the same hemisphere is again illuminated." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Orbital_resonance_of_Mercury_horizontal.gif/180px-Orbital_resonance_of_Mercury_horizontal.gif" decoding="async" width="180" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Orbital_resonance_of_Mercury_horizontal.gif/270px-Orbital_resonance_of_Mercury_horizontal.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Orbital_resonance_of_Mercury_horizontal.gif/360px-Orbital_resonance_of_Mercury_horizontal.gif 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="366" /></a><figcaption>Actual 3:2 spin-orbit resonance of Mercury</figcaption></figure> <p>From 1893 to the 1960s, it was believed that Mercury was 1:1 <a href="/wiki/Tidal_locking" title="Tidal locking">tidally locked</a> with the Sun such that one side of Mercury was always in sunlight and the opposite side always in darkness, with a thin band of perpetual twilight in between; numerous works of fiction written in this period portray Mercury in this way.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Examples include <a href="/wiki/Ray_Cummings" title="Ray Cummings">Ray Cummings</a>' 1930 novel <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tama_of_the_Light_Country&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tama of the Light Country (page does not exist)">Tama of the Light Country</a></i> where the inhabitants of Mercury live their lives under an unmoving Sun,<sup id="cite_ref-SFEMercury_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEMercury-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith" title="Clark Ashton Smith">Clark Ashton Smith</a>'s 1932 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Immortals_of_Mercury&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Immortals of Mercury (page does not exist)">The Immortals of Mercury</a>" where there are two different hostile species on the planet,<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a>'s 1942 short story "<a href="/wiki/Runaround_(story)" title="Runaround (story)">Runaround</a>" (later included in the 1950 <a href="/wiki/Fix-up" title="Fix-up">fix-up</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/I,_Robot" title="I, Robot">I, Robot</a></i>) where a robot is sent to retrieve critical supplies from the inhospitable dayside and malfunctions,<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hal_Clement" title="Hal Clement">Hal Clement</a>'s 1953 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Iceworld" title="Iceworld">Iceworld</a></i> where aliens accustomed to much higher temperatures than those found on Earth set up camp on the hot dayside of Mercury,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Asimov's 1956 short story "<a href="/wiki/The_Dying_Night" title="The Dying Night">The Dying Night</a>" where a character who has spent a long time on Mercury is used to there being areas in permanent darkness,<sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Alan_E._Nourse" title="Alan E. Nourse">Alan E. Nourse</a>'s 1956 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Brightside_Crossing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brightside Crossing (page does not exist)">Brightside Crossing</a>" which depicts an attempt to cross the illuminated side of the planet "<a href="/wiki/Because_it%27s_there" class="mw-redirect" title="Because it's there">because it's there</a>" as a feat similar to the then-recent <a href="/wiki/1953_British_Mount_Everest_expedition" title="1953 British Mount Everest expedition">first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Poul_Anderson" title="Poul Anderson">Poul Anderson</a>'s 1957 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life_Cycle_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Life Cycle (short story) (page does not exist)">Life Cycle</a>" where there is a species that changes from female to male when it goes from the nightside to the dayside and vice versa,<sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a>'s 1959 novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan" title="The Sirens of Titan">The Sirens of Titan</a></i> where there are lifeforms in caves on the nightside that live off of vibrations,<sup id="cite_ref-SFEMercury_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEMercury-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UniverseTodayMercury_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UniverseTodayMercury-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eli_Sagi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eli Sagi (page does not exist)">Eli Sagi</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%A9%D7%92%D7%99%D7%90" class="extiw" title="he:אלי שגיא">he</a>]</span>'s 1963 novel <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Harpatkotav_Shel_Captain_Yuno_Al_Ha%27kochav_Ha%27mistori&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harpatkotav Shel Captain Yuno Al Ha'kochav Ha'mistori (page does not exist)">Harpatkotav Shel Captain Yuno Al Ha'kochav Ha'mistori</a></i> (English title: <i>The Adventures of Captain Yuno on the Mysterious Planet</i>) where the inhabitants of the respective hemispheres are at war.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Larry_Niven" title="Larry Niven">Larry Niven</a>'s 1964 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Coldest_Place&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Coldest Place (page does not exist)">The Coldest Place</a>" depicts the nightside of Mercury and may be the last story of a tidally locked Mercury; between the time the story was written and when it was published, it was discovered that the planet is not tidally locked—it actually has a 3:2 <a href="/wiki/Spin%E2%80%93orbit_resonance" class="mw-redirect" title="Spin–orbit resonance">spin–orbit resonance</a> such that all sides regularly see daylight.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IRememberHellPlanet_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IRememberHellPlanet-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_depictions">Modern depictions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercury_in_fiction&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Modern depictions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:400px; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>A clement twilight zone on a synchronously rotating Mercury, a <a href="/wiki/Venus_in_fiction#Jungle_and_swamp" title="Venus in fiction">swamp-and-jungle Venus</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Mars_in_fiction#Canals" title="Mars in fiction">canal-infested Mars</a>, while all classic science-fiction devices, are all, in fact, based upon earlier misapprehensions by planetary scientists. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/Carl_Sagan" title="Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan</a>, 1978<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Even after it was discovered that Mercury is not tidally locked with the Sun, some stories continued to use the juxtaposition of the hot daytime side facing the Sun and the cold nighttime side facing away as a <a href="/wiki/Plot_device" title="Plot device">plot device</a>; the 1982 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Tortoise_and_O%27Hare&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Tortoise and O'Hare (page does not exist)">The Tortoise and O'Hare</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Grant_Callin" class="mw-redirect" title="Grant Callin">Grant Callin</a> portrays an astronaut who struggles to stay on the night side of the <a href="/wiki/Terminator_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Terminator line">terminator line</a> in order to avoid dying from the heat of the dayside,<sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and both the 1985 novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Memory_of_Whiteness" title="The Memory of Whiteness">The Memory of Whiteness</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson" title="Kim Stanley Robinson">Kim Stanley Robinson</a> and the 2008 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Saturn%27s_Children_(novel)" title="Saturn's Children (novel)">Saturn's Children</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stross" title="Charles Stross">Charles Stross</a> depict cities that move to stay in the sunrise area where it is neither too hot nor too cold.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SFEMercury_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEMercury-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UniverseTodayMercury_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UniverseTodayMercury-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In general, however, most modern stories focus on the generally harsh conditions of the planet.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Said <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_scholar" class="mw-redirect" title="Science fiction scholar">science fiction scholar</a> <a href="/wiki/Gary_Westfahl" title="Gary Westfahl">Gary Westfahl</a> in 2021, "Barring some unexpected discovery, however, science-fictional visits to Mercury will probably remain uncommon".<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other purposes for Mercury in modern <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> include as a base for studying the Sun, as in the 1980 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Sundiver" title="Sundiver">Sundiver</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Brin" title="David Brin">David Brin</a> where humans attempt to determine whether there is <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life" title="Extraterrestrial life">extraterrestrial life</a> inside the Sun.<sup id="cite_ref-SFEMercury_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFEMercury-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, the planet is used as a <a href="/wiki/Solar_power" title="Solar power">solar power</a> station in the 2005 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Mercury_(Bova_novel)" title="Mercury (Bova novel)">Mercury</a></i>, part of <a href="/wiki/Ben_Bova" title="Ben Bova">Ben Bova</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Grand_Tour_(novel_series)" title="Grand Tour (novel series)"><i>Grand Tour</i> series</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-UniverseTodayMercury_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UniverseTodayMercury-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is occasionally <a href="/wiki/Space_mining" class="mw-redirect" title="Space mining">mined for minerals</a>, as in the 1992 video game <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Control_II" title="Star Control II">Star Control II</a></i> and the 1994 short story "<a href="/wiki/Cilia-of-Gold" class="mw-redirect" title="Cilia-of-Gold">Cilia-of-Gold</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Baxter_(author)" title="Stephen Baxter (author)">Stephen Baxter</a> which also features life below the ice in a <a href="/wiki/Permanently_shadowed_crater" title="Permanently shadowed crater">permanently shadowed region</a> near one of the planet's poles.<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1973 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama" title="Rendezvous with Rama">Rendezvous with Rama</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> portrays the descendants of human colonists on Mercury, known as Hermians, as tough and paranoid.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UniverseTodayMercury_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UniverseTodayMercury-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several stories portray struggles against bureaucratic forces, as in the 1976 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Render_unto_Caesar_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Render unto Caesar (short story) (page does not exist)">Render unto Caesar</a>" by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eric_Vinicoff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eric Vinicoff (page does not exist)">Eric Vinicoff</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Marcia_Martin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marcia Martin (page does not exist)">Marcia Martin</a> where a Mercurian colony resists United Nations influence in order to stay independent.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Terraforming" title="Terraforming">terraformed</a> Mercury <a href="/wiki/Manmade_closed_ecological_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Manmade closed ecological system">enclosed in an enormous man-made structure</a> is depicted in the 2000 short story "<a href="/wiki/Romance_in_Extended_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance in Extended Time">Romance in Extended Time</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Purdom" title="Tom Purdom">Tom Purdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The terraforming of Mercury is also portrayed in the 2000 music album <a href="/wiki/Deltron_3030_(album)" title="Deltron 3030 (album)">Deltron 3030</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Deltron_3030" title="Deltron 3030">group of the same name</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 2005 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kath_and_Quicksilver&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kath and Quicksilver (page does not exist)">Kath and Quicksilver</a>" by Larry Niven and <a href="/wiki/Brenda_Cooper" title="Brenda Cooper">Brenda Cooper</a>, Mercury is threatened by the <a href="/wiki/Sun#After_core_hydrogen_exhaustion" title="Sun">expansion of the Sun</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordMercury_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordMercury-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The animated television series <i><a href="/wiki/Invader_Zim" title="Invader Zim">Invader Zim</a></i> from the early 2000s depicts Mercury being turned into an enormous spacecraft.<sup id="cite_ref-UniverseTravelGuideMercury_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UniverseTravelGuideMercury-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NASAMercury_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASAMercury-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It serves as a backdrop in the 2007 film <i><a href="/wiki/Sunshine_(2007_film)" title="Sunshine (2007 film)">Sunshine</a></i> when one spacecraft goes into orbit around Mercury before <a href="/wiki/Space_rendezvous" title="Space rendezvous">rendezvousing</a> with another.<sup id="cite_ref-UniverseTravelGuideMercury_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UniverseTravelGuideMercury-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NASAMercury_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASAMercury-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vulcan">Vulcan</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercury_in_fiction&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Vulcan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)" title="Vulcan (hypothetical planet)">Vulcan (hypothetical planet)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fictional_planets_of_the_Solar_System#Vulcan" title="Fictional planets of the Solar System">Fictional planets of the Solar System § Vulcan</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Perihelion_precession_of_Mercury" class="mw-redirect" title="Perihelion precession of Mercury">Anomalies in Mercury's orbit around the Sun</a> led <a href="/wiki/Urbain_Le_Verrier" title="Urbain Le Verrier">Urbain Le Verrier</a> to propose the existence of an unseen planet with an orbit interior to Mercury's exerting gravitational influence in 1859, similar to how <a href="/wiki/Irregularities_in_Uranus%27_orbit" class="mw-redirect" title="Irregularities in Uranus' orbit">irregularities in Uranus' orbit</a> had led to his <a href="/wiki/Discovery_of_Neptune" title="Discovery of Neptune">discovery of Neptune</a> in 1846. This hypothesized planet was dubbed "Vulcan", and featured in several works of fiction including the 1932 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Hell_Planet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Hell Planet (page does not exist)">The Hell Planet</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Leslie_F._Stone" title="Leslie F. Stone">Leslie F. Stone</a> where it is mined for resources, the 1936 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=At_the_Center_of_Gravity&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="At the Center of Gravity (page does not exist)">At the Center of Gravity</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Ross_Rocklynne" title="Ross Rocklynne">Ross Rocklynne</a> where its <a href="/wiki/Hollow_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Hollow planet">hollow interior</a> is visited, and the 1942 short story "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Child_of_the_Sun_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Child of the Sun (short story) (page does not exist)">Child of the Sun</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Leigh_Brackett" title="Leigh Brackett">Leigh Brackett</a> where it is inhabited by <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_intelligence" title="Extraterrestrial intelligence">intelligent life</a>. Mercury's orbital anomalies are now understood to be caused by the effects of <a href="/wiki/General_relativity" title="General relativity">general relativity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WestfahlMercury_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WestfahlMercury-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercury_in_fiction&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size noresize" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><img alt="A photomontage of the eight planets and the Moon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Solar_system.jpg/220px-Solar_system.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Solar_system.jpg/330px-Solar_system.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Solar_system.jpg/440px-Solar_system.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4500" data-file-height="5600" usemap="#ImageMap_239055dbda40f215" resource="/wiki/File:Solar_system.jpg" /></span><map name="ImageMap_239055dbda40f215"><area href="/wiki/Neptune_in_fiction" shape="circle" coords="61,230,32" alt="Neptune in fiction" title="Neptune in fiction" /><area href="/wiki/Uranus_in_fiction" shape="circle" coords="105,220,26" alt="Uranus in fiction" title="Uranus in fiction" /><area href="/wiki/Saturn_in_fiction" shape="circle" coords="141,194,30" alt="Saturn 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Taylor & Francis. pp. 298–299. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-415-97460-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-415-97460-8"><bdi>978-0-415-97460-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Mercury&rft.btitle=Science+Fact+and+Science+Fiction%3A+An+Encyclopedia&rft.pages=298-299&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-415-97460-8&rft.aulast=Stableford&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DuefwmdROKTAC%26pg%3DPA298&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMercury+in+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GreenwoodMercury-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GreenwoodMercury_4-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGillett2005" class="citation book cs1">Gillett, Stephen L. (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/greenwoodencyclo0002unse_f3t4/page/513/mode/2up">"Mercury"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Gary_Westfahl" title="Gary Westfahl">Westfahl, Gary</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Greenwood_Encyclopedia_of_Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy:_Themes,_Works,_and_Wonders" class="mw-redirect" title="The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders">The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders</a></i>. 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Springer. pp. 45–46. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-230-55465-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-230-55465-8"><bdi>978-0-230-55465-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Seventeenth-Century+Science+Fiction&rft.btitle=The+History+of+Science+Fiction&rft.pages=45-46&rft.pub=Springer&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-230-55465-8&rft.aulast=Roberts&rft.aufirst=Adam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DAajtCwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA45&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMercury+in+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoberts2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Adam_Roberts_(British_writer)" title="Adam Roberts (British writer)">Roberts, Adam</a> (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AajtCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78">"Eighteenth-Century Science Fiction"</a>. <i>The History of Science Fiction</i>. Springer. p. 78. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-230-55465-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-230-55465-8"><bdi>978-0-230-55465-8</bdi></a>. <q>Didacticism does not overpower Le Chevalier de Béthune's <i>Relation du Monde de Mercure</i> ('An Account of the Planet Mercury', 1750); a work of early SF unusual in not using the description of an imaginary Mercurian society as a vehicle for political satire or utopian fantasy or satire.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Eighteenth-Century+Science+Fiction&rft.btitle=The+History+of+Science+Fiction&rft.pages=78&rft.pub=Springer&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-230-55465-8&rft.aulast=Roberts&rft.aufirst=Adam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DAajtCwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA78&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMercury+in+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEggelingLangford2022" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Eggeling, John; <a href="/wiki/David_Langford" title="David Langford">Langford, David</a> (2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/munro_john">"Munro, John"</a>. 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In <a href="/wiki/John_Clute" title="John Clute">Clute, John</a>; <a href="/wiki/David_Langford" title="David Langford">Langford, David</a>; <a href="/wiki/Graham_Sleight" title="Graham Sleight">Sleight, Graham</a> (eds.). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_Science_Fiction" title="The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction">The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</a></i> (4th ed.)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 November</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Vulcan&rft.btitle=The+Encyclopedia+of+Science+Fiction&rft.edition=4th&rft.date=2019&rft.aulast=Westfahl&rft.aufirst=Gary&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsf-encyclopedia.com%2Fentry%2Fvulcan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMercury+in+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercury_in_fiction&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGillett1995" class="citation magazine cs1">Gillett, Stephen L. (Winter 1995). <a href="/wiki/Kim_Mohan" title="Kim Mohan">Mohan, Kim</a> (ed.). "Mercury: The Forgotten Planet". <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Stories" title="Amazing Stories">Amazing Stories</a></i>. No. 69/3. pp. 110–116. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1058-0751">1058-0751</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Amazing+Stories&rft.atitle=Mercury%3A+The+Forgotten+Planet&rft.ssn=winter&rft.issue=69%2F3&rft.pages=110-116&rft.date=1995&rft.issn=1058-0751&rft.aulast=Gillett&rft.aufirst=Stephen+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMercury+in+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCaryadRömerZingsem2014" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Caryad; Römer, Thomas; Zingsem, Vera (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=y_WJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA58">"Die Gefahrenwelt − Geschichten über Merkur"</a> [The Danger World – Stories About Mercury]. <i>Wanderer am Himmel: Die Welt der Planeten in Astronomie und Mythologie</i> [<i>Wanderers in the Sky: The World of the Planets in Astronomy and Mythology</i>] (in German). Springer-Verlag. pp. 58–59. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-642-55343-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-642-55343-1"><bdi>978-3-642-55343-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Die+Gefahrenwelt+%E2%88%92+Geschichten+%C3%BCber+Merkur&rft.btitle=Wanderer+am+Himmel%3A+Die+Welt+der+Planeten+in+Astronomie+und+Mythologie&rft.pages=58-59&rft.pub=Springer-Verlag&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-3-642-55343-1&rft.au=Caryad&rft.au=R%C3%B6mer%2C+Thomas&rft.au=Zingsem%2C+Vera&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dy_WJBAAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA58&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMercury+in+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLiptak2021" class="citation magazine cs1">Liptak, Andrew (July 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liptak_07_21/">"Destination Mercury"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Clarkesworld_Magazine" title="Clarkesworld Magazine">Clarkesworld Magazine</a></i>. No. 178. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1937-7843">1937-7843</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Clarkesworld+Magazine&rft.atitle=Destination+Mercury&rft.issue=178&rft.date=2021-07&rft.issn=1937-7843&rft.aulast=Liptak&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fclarkesworldmagazine.com%2Fliptak_07_21%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMercury+in+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Fraknoi" title="Andrew Fraknoi">Fraknoi, Andrew</a> (January 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/7b5edc23-7a89-46c1-a6b3-33a30ed4c876">"Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics: A Topical Index"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Astronomical_Society_of_the_Pacific" title="Astronomical Society of the Pacific">Astronomical Society of the Pacific</a></i> (7.3 ed.). p. 12. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240210011957/https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/7b5edc23-7a89-46c1-a6b3-33a30ed4c876">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 10 February 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_albedo_features_on_Mercury" title="List of albedo features on Mercury">Albedo features</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mercury" title="Atmosphere of Mercury">Atmosphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_geological_features_on_Mercury" title="List of geological features on Mercury">Features</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercury%27s_magnetic_field" title="Mercury's magnetic field">Magnetic field</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_quadrangles_on_Mercury" title="List of quadrangles on Mercury">Quadrangles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_quadrangles_on_Mercury" title="List of quadrangles on Mercury">Quadrangles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bach_quadrangle" title="Bach quadrangle">Bach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beethoven_quadrangle" title="Beethoven quadrangle">Beethoven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borealis_quadrangle" title="Borealis quadrangle">Borealis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debussy_quadrangle" title="Debussy quadrangle">Debussy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derain_quadrangle" title="Derain quadrangle">Derain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discovery_quadrangle" title="Discovery quadrangle">Discovery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eminescu_quadrangle" title="Eminescu quadrangle">Eminescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hokusai_quadrangle" title="Hokusai quadrangle">Hokusai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuiper_quadrangle" title="Kuiper quadrangle">Kuiper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelangelo_quadrangle" title="Michelangelo quadrangle">Michelangelo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neruda_quadrangle" title="Neruda quadrangle">Neruda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_quadrangle" title="Shakespeare quadrangle">Shakespeare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raditladi_quadrangle" title="Raditladi quadrangle">Raditladi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolstoj_quadrangle" title="Tolstoj quadrangle">Tolstoj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_quadrangle" title="Victoria quadrangle">Victoria</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Mountains and<br />volcanoes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caloris_Montes" title="Caloris Montes">Caloris Montes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Plains and<br /> plateaus</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ap%C4%81rangi_Planitia" title="Apārangi Planitia">Apārangi Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borealis_Planitia" title="Borealis Planitia">Borealis Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budh_Planitia" title="Budh Planitia">Budh Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caloris_Planitia" title="Caloris Planitia">Caloris Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mearcair_Planitia" title="Mearcair Planitia">Mearcair Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odin_Planitia" title="Odin Planitia">Odin Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sobkou_Planitia" title="Sobkou Planitia">Sobkou Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stilbon_Planitia" title="Stilbon Planitia">Stilbon Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suisei_Planitia" title="Suisei Planitia">Suisei Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tir_Planitia" title="Tir Planitia">Tir Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utaridi_Planitia" title="Utaridi Planitia">Utaridi Planitia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Canyons and<br /> valleys</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arecibo_Catena" title="Arecibo Catena">Arecibo Catena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arecibo_Catena" title="Arecibo Catena">Arecibo Vallis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goldstone_Catena" title="Goldstone Catena">Goldstone Catena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goldstone_Catena" title="Goldstone Catena">Goldstone Vallis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haystack_Catena" title="Haystack Catena">Haystack Catena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haystack_Catena" title="Haystack Catena">Haystack Vallis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simeiz_Vallis" title="Simeiz Vallis">Simeiz Vallis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Ridges and<br /> rupes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antoniadi_Dorsum" title="Antoniadi Dorsum">Antoniadi Dorsum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adventure_Rupes" title="Adventure Rupes">Adventure Rupes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beagle_Rupes" title="Beagle Rupes">Beagle Rupes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discovery_Rupes" title="Discovery Rupes">Discovery Rupes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enterprise_Rupes" title="Enterprise Rupes">Enterprise Rupes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hero_Rupes" title="Hero Rupes">Hero Rupes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resolution_Rupes" title="Resolution Rupes">Resolution Rupes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_Rupes" title="Santa María Rupes">Santa María Rupes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Rupes" title="Victoria Rupes">Victoria Rupes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Basins and<br /> fossae</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caloris_Basin" class="mw-redirect" title="Caloris Basin">Caloris Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantheon_Fossae" title="Pantheon Fossae">Pantheon Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raditladi_Basin" class="mw-redirect" title="Raditladi Basin">Raditladi Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rembrandt_(crater)" title="Rembrandt (crater)">Rembrandt Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skinakas_(hypothetical_basin)" title="Skinakas (hypothetical basin)">Skinakas (hypothetical basin)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_craters_on_Mercury" title="List of craters on Mercury">Craters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abedin_(crater)" title="Abedin (crater)">Abedin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Nuwas_(crater)" title="Abu Nuwas (crater)">Abu Nuwas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Africanus_Horton_(crater)" title="Africanus Horton (crater)">Africanus Horton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Baba_(crater)" title="Ahmad Baba (crater)">Ahmad Baba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ailey_(crater)" title="Ailey (crater)">Ailey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aksakov_(crater)" title="Aksakov (crater)">Aksakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akutagawa_(crater)" title="Akutagawa (crater)">Akutagawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Akhtal_(crater)" title="Al-Akhtal (crater)">Al-Akhtal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alencar_(crater)" title="Alencar (crater)">Alencar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Hamadhani_(crater)" title="Al-Hamadhani (crater)">Al-Hamadhani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-J%C4%81hiz_(crater)" title="Al-Jāhiz (crater)">Al-Jāhiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alver_(crater)" title="Alver (crater)">Alver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amaral_(crater)" title="Amaral (crater)">Amaral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amru_Al-Qays_(crater)" title="Amru Al-Qays (crater)">Amru Al-Qays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andal_(crater)" title="Andal (crater)">Andal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aneirin_(crater)" title="Aneirin (crater)">Aneirin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angelou_(crater)" title="Angelou (crater)">Angelou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anguissola_(crater)" title="Anguissola (crater)">Anguissola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anyte_(crater)" title="Anyte (crater)">Anyte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollodorus_(crater)" title="Apollodorus (crater)">Apollodorus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristoxenus_(crater)" title="Aristoxenus (crater)">Aristoxenes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A%C5%9Bvagho%E1%B9%A3a_(crater)" title="Aśvaghoṣa 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href="/wiki/Belinskij_(crater)" title="Belinskij (crater)">Belinskij</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bello_(crater)" title="Bello (crater)">Bello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benoit_(crater)" title="Benoit (crater)">Benoit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berkel_(crater)" title="Berkel (crater)">Berkel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernini_(crater)" title="Bernini (crater)">Bernini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bjornson_(crater)" title="Bjornson (crater)">Bjornson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boccaccio_(crater)" title="Boccaccio (crater)">Boccaccio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boethius_(Mercurian_crater)" title="Boethius (Mercurian crater)">Boethius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botticelli_(crater)" title="Botticelli (crater)">Botticelli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahms_(crater)" title="Brahms (crater)">Brahms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bramante_(crater)" title="Bramante (crater)">Bramante</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bront%C3%AB_(Mercurian_crater)" title="Brontë (Mercurian crater)">Brontë</a></li> 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title="Dali (crater)">Dali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dario_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dario (crater)">Dario</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/De_Graft_(crater)" title="De Graft (crater)">De Graft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debussy_(crater)" title="Debussy (crater)">Debussy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Degas_(crater)" title="Degas (crater)">Degas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delacroix_(crater)" title="Delacroix (crater)">Delacroix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derain_(crater)" title="Derain (crater)">Derain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derzhavin_(crater)" title="Derzhavin (crater)">Derzhavin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desprez_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Desprez (crater)">Desprez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dickens_(crater)" title="Dickens (crater)">Dickens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominici_(crater)" title="Dominici (crater)">Dominici</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donne_(crater)" title="Donne (crater)">Donne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dostoevskij_(crater)" title="Dostoevskij (crater)">Dostoevskij</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dowland_(crater)" title="Dowland (crater)">Dowland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durer_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Durer (crater)">Durer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dvorak_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dvorak (crater)">Dvorak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastman_(crater)" title="Eastman (crater)">Eastman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eitoku_(crater)" title="Eitoku (crater)">Eitoku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eminescu_(crater)" title="Eminescu (crater)">Eminescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enheduanna_(crater)" title="Enheduanna (crater)">Enheduanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enwonwu_(crater)" title="Enwonwu (crater)">Enwonwu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equiano_(crater)" title="Equiano (crater)">Equiano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faulkner_(crater)" title="Faulkner (crater)">Faulkner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fet_(crater)" title="Fet (crater)">Fet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firdousi_(crater)" title="Firdousi (crater)">Firdousi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flaubert_(crater)" title="Flaubert (crater)">Flaubert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flaiano_(crater)" title="Flaiano (crater)">Flaiano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Futabatei_(crater)" title="Futabatei (crater)">Futabatei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gainsborough_(crater)" title="Gainsborough (crater)">Gainsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gauguin_(crater)" title="Gauguin (crater)">Gauguin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geddes_(crater)" title="Geddes (crater)">Geddes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghiberti_(crater)" title="Ghiberti (crater)">Ghiberti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gibran_(crater)" title="Gibran (crater)">Gibran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giotto_(crater)" title="Giotto (crater)">Giotto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glinka_(crater)" title="Glinka (crater)">Glinka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gluck_(crater)" title="Gluck (crater)">Gluck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goethe_Basin" title="Goethe Basin">Goethe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gogol_(crater)" title="Gogol (crater)">Gogol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goya_(crater)" title="Goya (crater)">Goya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grieg_(crater)" title="Grieg (crater)">Grieg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guido_d%27Arezzo_(crater)" title="Guido d'Arezzo (crater)">Guido d'Arezzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hals_(crater)" title="Hals (crater)">Hals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Kan_(crater)" title="Han Kan (crater)">Han Kan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handel_(crater)" title="Handel (crater)">Handel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harunobu_(crater)" title="Harunobu (crater)">Harunobu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hauptmann_(crater)" title="Hauptmann (crater)">Hauptmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthorne_(crater)" title="Hawthorne (crater)">Hawthorne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haydn_(crater)" title="Haydn (crater)">Haydn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heine_(crater)" title="Heine (crater)">Heine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemingway_(crater)" title="Hemingway (crater)">Hemingway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesiod_(crater)" title="Hesiod (crater)">Hesiod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshige_(crater)" title="Hiroshige (crater)">Hiroshige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hitomaro_(crater)" title="Hitomaro (crater)">Hitomaro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hodgkins_(crater)" title="Hodgkins (crater)">Hodgkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hokusai_(crater)" title="Hokusai (crater)">Hokusai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holbein_(crater)" title="Holbein (crater)">Holbein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holberg_(crater)" title="Holberg (crater)">Holberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holst_(crater)" title="Holst (crater)">Holst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homer_(crater)" title="Homer (crater)">Homer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_(crater)" title="Horace (crater)">Horace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hovnatanian_(crater)" title="Hovnatanian (crater)">Hovnatanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo_(crater)" title="Hugo (crater)">Hugo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hun_Kal_(crater)" title="Hun Kal (crater)">Hun Kal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hurley_(crater)" title="Hurley (crater)">Hurley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibsen_(crater)" title="Ibsen (crater)">Ibsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ictinus_(crater)" title="Ictinus (crater)">Ictinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imhotep_(crater)" title="Imhotep (crater)">Imhotep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ives_(crater)" title="Ives (crater)">Ives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Izquierdo_(crater)" title="Izquierdo (crater)">Izquierdo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek_(crater)" title="Janáček (crater)">Janáček</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jokai_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jokai (crater)">Jokai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judah_Ha-Levi_(crater)" title="Judah Ha-Levi (crater)">Judah Ha-Levi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalidasa_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalidasa (crater)">Kalidasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karsh_(crater)" title="Karsh (crater)">Karsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keats_(crater)" title="Keats (crater)">Keats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenko_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenko (crater)">Kenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kert%C3%A9sz_(crater)" title="Kertész (crater)">Kertész</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khansa_(crater)" title="Khansa (crater)">Khansa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kipling_(crater)" title="Kipling (crater)">Kipling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D_(crater)" title="Kōshō (crater)">Kōshō</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuan_Han-Ch%CA%BBing_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuan Han-Chʻing (crater)">Kuan Han-Chʻing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuiper_(crater_on_Mercury)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuiper (crater on Mercury)">Kuiper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kulthum_(crater)" title="Kulthum (crater)">Kulthum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunisada_(crater)" title="Kunisada (crater)">Kunisada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurosawa_(crater)" title="Kurosawa (crater)">Kurosawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lange_(crater)" title="Lange (crater)">Lange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larrocha_(crater)" title="Larrocha (crater)">Larrocha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leopardi_(crater)" title="Leopardi (crater)">Leopardi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lermontov_(crater)" title="Lermontov (crater)">Lermontov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lessing_(crater)" title="Lessing (crater)">Lessing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Ch%CA%BBing-Chao_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Chʻing-Chao (crater)">Li Chʻing-Chao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Po_(crater)" title="Li Po (crater)">Li Po</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liang_K%CA%BBai_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liang Kʻai (crater)">Liang Kʻai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liszt_(crater)" title="Liszt (crater)">Liszt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovecraft_(crater)" title="Lovecraft (crater)">Lovecraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lu_Hsun_(crater)" title="Lu Hsun (crater)">Lu Hsun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lysippus_(crater)" title="Lysippus (crater)">Lysippus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma_Chih-Yuan_(crater)" title="Ma Chih-Yuan (crater)">Ma Chih-Yuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Machaut_(crater)" title="Machaut (crater)">Machaut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahler_(crater)" title="Mahler (crater)">Mahler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansart_(crater)" title="Mansart (crater)">Mansart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansur_(crater)" title="Mansur (crater)">Mansur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_(crater)" title="March (crater)">March</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain_(crater)" title="Mark Twain (crater)">Mark Twain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%AD_(crater)" title="Martí (crater)">Martí</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martial_(crater)" title="Martial (crater)">Martial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matabei_(crater)" title="Matabei (crater)">Matabei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matisse_(crater)" title="Matisse (crater)">Matisse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melville_(crater)" title="Melville (crater)">Melville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mena_(Mercurian_crater)" title="Mena (Mercurian crater)">Mena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mendes_Pinto_(crater)" title="Mendes Pinto (crater)">Mendes Pinto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelangelo_(crater)" title="Michelangelo (crater)">Michelangelo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mickiewicz_(crater)" title="Mickiewicz (crater)">Mickiewicz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton_(crater)" title="Milton (crater)">Milton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mistral_(crater)" title="Mistral (crater)">Mistral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mofolo_(crater)" title="Mofolo (crater)">Mofolo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re_(crater)" title="Molière (crater)">Molière</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monet_(crater)" title="Monet (crater)">Monet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monteverdi_(crater)" title="Monteverdi (crater)">Monteverdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moody_(crater)" title="Moody (crater)">Moody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mozart_(crater)" title="Mozart (crater)">Mozart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munch_(crater)" title="Munch (crater)">Munch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munk%C3%A1csy_(crater)" title="Munkácsy (crater)">Munkácsy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murasaki_(crater)" title="Murasaki (crater)">Murasaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mussorgskij_(crater)" title="Mussorgskij (crater)">Mussorgskij</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myron_(crater)" title="Myron (crater)">Myron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabokov_(crater)" title="Nabokov (crater)">Nabokov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nampeyo_(crater)" title="Nampeyo (crater)">Nampeyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navoi_(crater)" title="Navoi (crater)">Navoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nawahi_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nawahi (crater)">Nawahi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neruda_(crater)" title="Neruda (crater)">Neruda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nureyev_(crater)" title="Nureyev (crater)">Nureyev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nervo_(crater)" title="Nervo (crater)">Nervo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neumann_(crater)" title="Neumann (crater)">Neumann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nizami_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nizami (crater)">Nizami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Okyo_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Okyo (crater)">Okyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oskison_(crater)" title="Oskison (crater)">Oskison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid_(crater)" title="Ovid (crater)">Ovid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrarch_(crater)" title="Petrarch (crater)">Petrarch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phidias_(crater)" title="Phidias (crater)">Phidias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Picasso_(crater)" title="Picasso (crater)">Picasso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poe_(crater)" title="Poe (crater)">Poe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polygnotus_(crater)" title="Polygnotus (crater)">Polygnotus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praxiteles_(crater)" title="Praxiteles (crater)">Praxiteles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prokofiev_(crater)" title="Prokofiev (crater)">Prokofiev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qi_Baishi_(crater)" title="Qi Baishi (crater)">Qi Baishi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachmaninoff_(crater)" title="Rachmaninoff (crater)">Rachmaninoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raden_Saleh_(crater)" title="Raden Saleh (crater)">Raden Saleh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raditladi_Basin" class="mw-redirect" title="Raditladi Basin">Raditladi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rameau_(crater)" title="Rameau (crater)">Rameau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raphael_(crater)" title="Raphael (crater)">Raphael</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rembrandt_(crater)" title="Rembrandt (crater)">Rembrandt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renoir_(crater)" title="Renoir (crater)">Renoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivera_(crater)" title="Rivera (crater)">Rivera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rizal_(crater)" title="Rizal (crater)">Rizal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodin_(crater)" title="Rodin (crater)">Rodin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudaki_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudaki (crater)">Rudaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sander_(crater)" title="Sander (crater)">Sander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scarlatti_(crater)" title="Scarlatti (crater)">Scarlatti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schubert_(crater_on_Mercury)" class="mw-redirect" title="Schubert (crater on Mercury)">Schubert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_(Mercurian_crater)" title="Shakespeare (Mercurian crater)">Shakespeare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sholem_Aleichem_(crater)" title="Sholem Aleichem (crater)">Sholem Aleichem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinan_(crater)" title="Sinan (crater)">Sinan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stravinsky_(crater)" title="Stravinsky (crater)">Stravinsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sullivan_(crater_on_Mercury)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sullivan (crater on Mercury)">Sullivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sveinsd%C3%B3ttir_(crater)" title="Sveinsdóttir (crater)">Sveinsdóttir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titian_(crater)" title="Titian (crater)">Titian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/To_Ngoc_Van_(crater)" title="To Ngoc Van (crater)">To Ngoc Van</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolstoj_(crater)" title="Tolstoj (crater)">Tolstoj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vel%C3%A1zquez_(crater)" title="Velázquez (crater)">Velázquez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verdi_(crater)" title="Verdi (crater)">Verdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Villa-Lobos_(crater)" title="Villa-Lobos (crater)">Villa-Lobos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vivaldi_(crater)" title="Vivaldi (crater)">Vivaldi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyasa_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vyasa (crater)">Vyasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xiao_Zhao_(crater)" title="Xiao Zhao (crater)">Xiao Zhao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yeats_(crater)" title="Yeats (crater)">Yeats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zola_(crater)" title="Zola (crater)">Zola</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Mercury" title="Geology of Mercury">Geology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_craters_on_Mercury" title="Ghost craters on Mercury">Ghost craters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inter-crater_plains_on_Mercury" title="Inter-crater plains on Mercury">Inter-crater plains</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Moons</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hypothetical_moon_of_Mercury" title="Hypothetical moon of Mercury">Hypothetical moon of Mercury</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Astronomy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Transit_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Transit (astronomy)">Transits</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Transit_of_Mercury" title="Transit of Mercury">Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transit_of_Mercury_from_Mars" title="Transit of Mercury from Mars">Mars</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">Asteroids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mercury-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Mercury-crossing minor planets">Mercury-crossing asteroids</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Mercury" title="Exploration of Mercury">Exploration</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Current<br /> and past</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mariner_10" title="Mariner 10">Mariner 10</a></i> (1973–1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/MESSENGER" title="MESSENGER">MESSENGER</a></i> (2004–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BepiColombo" title="BepiColombo">BepiColombo</a> (2018–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Proposed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mercury-P" title="Mercury-P">Mercury-P</a> (~2031)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colonization_of_Mercury" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonization of Mercury">Colonization of Mercury</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sub-Earth" title="Sub-Earth">Sub-Earth</a></li></ul> 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