NASA
Nasa: Welcome to the Planets Mercury
NASA offers a photo gallery of Mercury images. Each image includes a detailed caption describing what is being seen, and this caption is also available in streaming audio.
NASA
Nasa Space Place: All About Mercury
Students have an opportunity to learn more about Mercury. Each badge contains a student centered experience to understand another aspect of the planet.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: The Planets
This survey of the planets includes all the basics, size, mass, atmosphere, length of day, and the like. It features interactive activities and learning exercises and compares all of the planets in colorful tables.
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Our Solar System
Take a tour of our solar system and learn fascinating details and observations about the planets.
Encyclopedia Mythica
The Encyclopedia Mythica: Mercury
A brief description of Mercury, the Roman god of trade, profit, merchants, and travelers.
Cosmos 4 kids
Cosmos4 Kids: Solar System: Mercury
Learn all the basic facts about the planet Mercury. The brief, to the point text makes this site most suitable for younger researchers.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Science Monster: Mercury
A cool fact sheet about Mercury including a place for students to enter their weight on Earth to convert it to what it would be on Mercury.
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory: Messenger Home
Home page for NASA's Discovery Program Messenger to the planet Mercury. Site provides details of the planned mission, its experiments and the science and management teams. Linked Quicktime animation files are very large and detailed....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Planets in Our Solar System Study Guide
A quick overview of the eight planets in our solar system.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Planets of the Solar System
As technology has advanced, so do our views and understanding of the solar system. No longer do we have to rely on our unaided eyes to observe planets. View these high-quality images of planets provided by NASA spacecraft.
NASA
Nasa: Planetary Data Sytem: Welcome to the Planets
Collection of images, with vocalized explanatory captions, of the planets acquired by NASA as part of its exploratory space programs.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Big Are the Planets in Our Solar System?
This activity explores the relative size of the eight planets that circle around the Sun.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: Structure of Mercury's Interior
Windows to the Universe briefly details the structure of the interior of the planet Mercury.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Our Solar System: Inner Planets
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the four inner planets of our solar system, which include Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Earth.
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: Messenger: Planet Mass Comparison
Compare the masses of planets in this interactive animation. Simply pile a number of Earths on one side of the scale, to balance with the mass of one Jupiter. Then try this with all the planets.
NASA
Nasa: Planets in a Bottle
In this simple lesson, students grow yeast to learn how the climates on each of the nine planets would affect life.
Nine Planets
The Nine Planets: An Overview of the Solar System
A detailed overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in the solar system.
NASA
Nasa: Mercury Planet Profile
This page from NASA provides a chart of statistical information on planet Mercury. Its mass, diameter, average temperature, and distance from the Sun are among the characteristics listed.
NASA
Nasa: Discovery Mission: Messenger
The MESSENGER (MErcury: Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) mission is a scientific investigation of the planet Mercury. This site provides information about its mission objectives and management.
Wonderville Media
Wonderville: Planets
There are eight planets in orbit around our Sun. These planets form our solar system. The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There are also rocks, moons, comets, and other objects going...
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Ancient Times & the Greeks
In ancient times only five planets were known: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Learn about Greek astronomer Ptolemy's theory for the solar system that was to survive for fourteen centuries.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Mercury
Provides good information about Mercury and is a good starting point for information about the planet along with pictures and audio. Links to a simple fact table, puzzle, glossary, and more detailed information.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Mercury
Learn fun facts and details about the atmosphere, geography, composition, and discovery of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Mercury's Core Secrets Exposed
From ABC News in Science, Irene Klotz's article explores the partially liquid core discovered inside the planet Mercury. The findings are evaluated through current scientific research.
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