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Mercury
The Oculus — Greenwich Street End
📍 Step out onto Greenwich Street rather than staying under the roof. The fix indoors is poor and the card wants daylight — you lose nothing, the ribs are better from outside anyway.
At true scale: 0.72 in (1.8 cm) across
About this place
Mercury is 0.72 inches across here, smaller than a marble, and 739 feet from the bronze. The Sun you just left is 285 times wider. That ratio is the honest one, and it is the last time on this walk that a planet and its Sun are both in easy view.
Next stop →
East along Fulton to Broadway — three minutes. Venus is in the churchyard on the far corner, behind the iron railing.
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