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While the likelyhood of a Mercury Lander mission is very low, I was wondering if any planning/studies have been done on such a project?
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ESA studied alternative possible designs for a BepiColombo lander in great detail, until they concluded that they just didn't have the money. Meanwhile, the US has pretty firmly concluded that a Mercury multiple-small-lander mission is the only logical next step after Messenger and BepiColombo, although it's not all that high on NASA's Solar System priority list. (It would likely be a New Frontiers-class mission, costwise.)
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