This is one of six Geocaches launched at the MGA2015 Picnic Event which was held on September 12, 2015. We decided to create a series that would be "out of this World!" So the theme of the series is the six planets of our solar system that are visible with the naked eye. The caches are placed in the order of the planets away from the sun.
Mercury
Mercury is the smallest and closest to the Sun. Because Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth's orbit it can appear in Earth's sky in the morning or the evening, but not in the middle of the night. Two spacecraft have visited Mercury: Mariner 10 flew by in the 1970s; and MESSENGER, launched in 2004, orbited Mercury over 4,000 times in four years, before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface on April 30, 2015.
This cache is located within Lake Erie Metropark, a part of the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority park system. A Metropark Vehicle Entry Permit is required: Annual Permit $30. Senior (62+) Permit $20. Daily Permit $7.
For General information please call 810-227-2752 800-47-PARKS. Or visit our website at WWW.metroparks.com.
All park rules and regulations apply. Park in parking lots only.
Dogs on a leash are allowed in this section of the park.
VERY IMPORTANT: THE HOURS FOR LAKE ERIE METROPARK ARE 6 am to 10 p.m. Daily.
For more information about the MGA2015 Geocaching Adventure check out the web page FOUND HERE.