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Mercury
By:Nick Johnson
Mercury
It’s the closet planet
to the Sun and has
no moons
Mercury is one-third
of Earth’s size
It has a slow spin of
1407.6 hours
Atmosphere
It don’t have much
of an Atmosphere,
what little does exist
is composed
primarily of oxygen
and sodium
The temperature is
700 K (427C),night
temperature’s –173
Celsius
Mercury Surface
The Mariner 10 is how
we know about Mercury
is based on radio radio
observations.
Mercury surface is
similar to the Moon’s
surface it is covered
with craters ad plains
The plains of Mercury’s
surface are smooth
and relatively crater free
Its thought that the plains were formed
from lava flows that covered cratered
terrain, much like the Maria on the
Moon
The surface gravity of Mercury is much
greater than that of the Moon.
Mercury has a planet wide system of
cliffs called scarps scientists
hypothesize that the scarps developed
as Mercury's crust shrank and fractured
early in the plant’s
Interior
Scientist have no data
with which to analyze
the interior of Mercury.
The high density of the
planet suggests that
Mercury has an
extensive nickel-iron
core,filling about 42% of
Mercury’s Volume