The closest planet to the Sun is none other than Mercury. Also it is the first planet of our solar system. It is lowest in terms of weights and is the smallest planet in our solar system.
Mercury takes 28 days to complete one revolution of the sun. It has mass of 1 lakh crore 3285 crore.
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The average diameter of the planet is near about 4880 kilometer and it's distance from the sun is 5 crore 76 lakh kilometers.
1. Mercury revolves around three times on its axis in orbit around the Sun which means mercury has three days in the planet's two years.
Until 1962, it was believed that the time of one day of Mercury and one year is equal.
2. There is no stability in the environment of Mercury. There is no special layer of atmospheres around it.
The reason behind it's instability of environment is the slightest nuclear solar wind due to it's very high temperature and due to the very warm conditions.
It flies into the space soon enough making the environment unstable.
3. Mercury is on the orbital path orbiting the Sun. It's maximum distance is approximately 7 million kilometers, while the nearest distance to the Sun is about 460 million kilometers.
4. About 1 million 80 thousand kilometers per hour, mercury planet orbits all the other planets at a rapid pace. Our planet earth moves with a speed of approximately 1, 70, 000 kilometers per hour.
Mercury travels 47.362 kilometers in a second and the earth is 29.78 kilometers when the speed is compared in seconds.
5. There are many craters on the surface of the planet and the surface is also rugged.
Some of the pits are very big, hundreds of kilometers long and three kilometers deep.
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6. In order to see the planet mercury with our naked eyes we must see/search the planet at the time of sunset or at right before the sunrise.
7. The planet is smaller than Titan which is the satellite of Saturn and also it is smaller than the Jupiter's Ganymede.
Before 2006 when Pluto was considered as a planet, mercury was the second smallest planet in our solar system.
8. The temperature also vary on the planet depending on the time. If it is day then the temperature reaches to 450 ° C while the night temperature is in between -1 ° C to -176 ° C which is really a huge difference.
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| Mercury Planet |
So much density indicates that the center of mercury is made of iron like the center of the earth and its iron center is larger than the earth's iron center.
Although mercury is 26 times smaller than earth. But despite of being small it is much more dense.
10. Because mercury moves in space very rapidly the people of ancient Rome called Mercury to be the messengers of the Gods.
11. Galileo Galilee, the great scientist was the first person to see the planet mercury through his telescope.
12. The Mercury name is named after the name of a Roman God named Mercury.
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13. Planet mercury's gravitational force is weak due to which it has no satellite or round ring.
14. The Sun will be three times its size when mercury is closest to the Sun.
15. And lastly if your weight on earth is 100 kg then on mercury it will be 38 kg.
There are other amazing mysteries regarding this planet but since this article is about the facts of the planet, I will tell those amazing mysteries later in some article. Peace.
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