Mercury
by Tim Brown/science Photo Library
Title
Mercury
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Tim Brown/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Mercury, illustration. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. It is a rocky world covered with meteorite impact craters. Its diameter (4880 kilometres) is less than half that of Earth and it has a surface area that is about the same as that of the Atlantic Ocean. The solar wind blasts atoms from its surface, forming a very thin atmosphere that is constantly lost to space. The surface temperature extremes are the greatest in the solar system, ranging (day-night) from 400 to minus 170 degrees Celsius.
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November 3rd, 2019
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