Enigmatic Mercury Will Remain A Puzzle Until Someone Sends A Lander - Universe Today
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Mercury remains one of our solar system’s most elusive and difficult planets to study. It's easier to send probes to the icy moons of Saturn or Jupiter, or even Pluto, than to land on our innermost planet of Mercury.
Ground-based optical observatories don’t risk turning their sights on Mercury, without potentially damaging their optics under the very nearby glare of the bright Sun. Thus, of the planets in our inner solar system, Mercury arguably remains both the least explored and most misunderstood.
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