OS - Baat Ek Raati Ki... Thread 3 NOTE Page 42 - Page 18

Originally posted by: Anjani9

Hope my friends did not eat some strange fruit and turned like this 😲

Originally posted by: Vidishaa

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.

1. Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system -- only slightly larger than the Earth's moon.
2. It is the closest planet to the sun at a distance of about 58 million km (36 million miles) or 0.39 AU.
3. 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

4. Mercury is a rocky planet, also known as a terrestrial planet. Mercury has a solid, cratered surface, much like Earth's moon.
5. 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.
6. Mercury has no moons.
7. There are no rings around Mercury

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

Originally posted by: Vidishaa

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

Originally posted by: Suvika.

Mercury ki jai ho Vidi 😆

Originally posted by: mudraswathi

Sure Vidi had that forbidden apple

Originally posted by: Anjani9

What happened to all of you who are after Mercury?😕

Who is this Mercury and what is the story???

Originally posted by: mudraswathi

that is Mallu😆

Originally posted by: -deepali17-

Yeh kya funda hain Mercury kya