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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
MERCURY
IS A INNER PLANET BECAUSE IT IS INSIDE THE ASTEROID BELT.
Photo by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
It is the first planet from the Sun.
IT IS ALSO THE SMALLEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR System.
IT TAKES MERCURY EIGHTY-EIGHT DAYS TO ORBIT THE SUN ONCE.
MERCURY
HAS A WEAK GRAVITY THAN EARTH.
MERCURY IS KNOWN FOR SPINNING THREE TIMES EVERY TWO TRIPS AROUND THE SUN.
ROMAN GOD MESSENGER.
MERCURY IS THE FASTEST PLANET TO ORBIT SO IT WAS NAMED AFTER THE
THE HOTEST TEMPRATURE
ON MERCURY WAS 840 DEGREES AND THE LOWEST WAS -290 DEGREES.
MERCURY HAS ZERO MOONS
ORBITING IT.
MERCURY
- Mercury can be seen at night with a telescope
- My planet is mostly made of rock
- My planet does not have clouds or rings
- It is also smaller than Earth
ONLY ONE SATELLITE NAMED
MESSENGER HAS BEEN TO MERCURY IN 2011
FUN FACTS
- People found out about Mercury in the 14th century B.C.
- Mercury is the most cratered plant in the solar system
- It it the second hottest planet
- Thirteen times during a century Mercury can be seen by people on Earth
