Moore on Mercury

• Lift-off.- Elusive Planet.- “Messenger of the Gods”.- Mercury in the Solar System.- Crossing the Sun.- Ghost Planet.- Through the Telescope.- Mapping Mercury.- Mariner 10.- Cratered World.- Around Mercury.- Return to Mercury.- Life on Mercury?.- A Trip to Mercury.- Mercurian Base.

From the reviews: "Because it is never very far from the sun in our sky, Mercury is one of the least studied planets, by amateurs or professionals. Astronomer Moore's compact book ... provides a concise summary of some of mercury's unique properties. ... The book summarizes that mission and offers a mini-atlas of the planet's surface and a short prospectus for the Mercury Messenger mission on its way now. ... General readers; lower-division undergraduates; two-year technical program students." (T. D. Oswalt, Choice, Vol. 45 (1), 2007) "Moore on Mercury provides the reader with a concise summary of all things Mercurian on the eve of this historic encounter. ... it provides an excellent introduction to the planet, and the author does a fine job of placing our study of this world in its proper historical context." (Brendan K Ward, Astronomy and Space, May, 2007)