Science and Exploration

Mercury Rising: Pink Planet at Sunset

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
February 9, 2013
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Mercury Rising: Pink Planet at Sunset
Mercury looking at the north pole.
NASA

The planet Mercury is about to make its best apparition of the year for backyard sky watchers. Look west at sunset for a piercing pink planet surrounded by twilight blue.

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