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Mercury
Solidarity Drive at Lynn White Drive
📍 Turn around and look back east: the Adler's dome sits square at the end of the causeway with the Copernicus monument in front of it. That view back at the planetarium is the whole distance you have covered so far, which is the point of Mercury.
At true scale: 0.36 in (9.1 mm) across
About this place
Mercury is a third of an inch across here — about a peppercorn — and 348 feet from the sundial. You reach the first planet before you have properly left the Adler's plaza.
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Keep west along Solidarity Drive. Venus is a couple of minutes on, where the planting thickens on the left.
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