Mercury model
| Mercury animation data | |||||
| Mercury animation represents its transit between Earth and Sun on November 8 at 19:10:08 to november 9 at 00:10:08 UT, of 2006 | |||||
| Time scale | |||||
| Animation | 60 | sec. | |||
| Represent | 5 | hrs. | |||
| Mercury | .003547 | rotation cycles | |||
| .002364 | orbital cycles | ||||
| Point of view data | |||||
| Point of view* | FOV | Distance to Mercury center | Horizontal alignment | Reference | |
| To Mercury | 10° | 100,000 km | Earth equator | Earth North Pole up | |
| From-earth (Transit) | 0.8° | 100,983,644.86 km | " | " | |
| *Mercury isn't animated for "To Mercury" point of view, only for "From-earth" point of view. | |||||
| Represented objects: | |||||
| Mercury and Sun | |||||
| Model maps** | |||||
| Mercury | False color global map of Mercury made with the Mesenger photographs. NASA / JHUAPL / CIW. Color represents the nature of the materials on the planet's surface and they are not what the eye captures. Mercury's color is rather grayish brown. | ||||
| Sun | Same map of the Solar System model. | ||||
| ** See credits | |||||