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Vidisha

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Posted: 10 years ago

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For more information on mercury please visit

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mercury&Display=Gallery

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Vidisha

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Posted: 10 years ago

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How Mercury Got its Name
Mercury is appropriately named for the swiftest of the ancient Roman gods. Mercury, the god of commerce, is the Roman counterpart to the ancient Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the gods.

(courtesy NASA)

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Vidisha

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Posted: 10 years ago

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Sun-scorched Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth's moon. Like the moon, Mercury has very little atmosphere to stop impacts and it is covered with craters. Mercury's dayside is super-heated by the sun, but at night temperatures drop hundreds of degrees below freezing. Ice may even exist in craters. Mercury's egg-shaped orbit takes it around the sun every 88 days.

Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system -- only slightly larger than the Earth's moon.
It is the closest planet to the sun at a distance of about 58 million km (36 million miles) or 0.39 AU.
One day on Mercury (the time it takes for Mercury to rotate or spin once) takes 59 Earth days. Mercury makes a complete orbit around the sun (a year in Mercury time) in just 88 Earth days.
MESSENGER: First to orbit Mercury. Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Mercury is a rocky planet, also known as a terrestrial planet. Mercury has a solid, cratered surface, much like Earth's moon.
Mercury's thin atmosphere, or exosphere, is composed mostly of oxygen (O₂), sodium (Na), hydrogen (H₂), helium (He), and potassium (K). Atoms that are blasted off the surface by the solar wind and micrometeoroid impacts create Mercury's exosphere.
Mercury has no moons.
There are no rings around Mercury

(Taken from ) http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mercury(NASA)

Edited by Vidishaa - 10 years ago

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Vidisha

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Posted: 10 years ago

#164

DISCLAIMER- The name mercury has nothing to do with Mudraji's fun post on why planets have elliptical orbits... none whatsoever...

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shobha21

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Posted: 10 years ago

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Originally posted by: Vidishaa
How Mercury Got its Name
Mercury is appropriately named for the swiftest of the ancient Roman gods. Mercury, the god of commerce, is the Roman counterpart to the ancient Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the gods.
(courtesy NASA)

But you said mercury abhinetha hai 😕

Edited by shobha21 - 10 years ago