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Mars? , Venus?

The planet
Mercury

Not a popular tourist destination at present (2001/11), because the planet is a bit close to the SUN! Orbital period 88 days. It's a small planet, so is a bit short on atmosphere.

Here are a few links:

wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/wall/mercury.html

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/mercury.htm

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/mercury.html

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/mercury/mercury.html

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Space.Science/Our.Solar.System/Mercury/.index.html (gone but relinked to NASA)

Mariner 10: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1973-085A.html (gone)

http://cps.earth.northwestern.edu/merc.html

These were last checked 2006/03/26