MERCURY

FACTS ABOUT MERCURY

• Mercury is in the the terrestrial group.
• The distance from the sun is 58 million km (36 million miles) or 0.39 AU.
• It is between the Sun and Venus
• 88 earth days for one period of revolution
• giving it an eccentricity of 0.21.

MORE FACTS ABOUT MERCURY

• Mercury diameter is 3,032 miles(4,879)
• The surface temperature is at night it's -280oF and 800 during the day
• It is 3.7 m/s^2
• It has no natural satellites
• This background is a picture of mercury

PICTURE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

TERRESTRIAL PLANETS

• Planets that are earth like and you could live on it.
• They are made of rocks and metals

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MERCURY

• It is very high density
• Liquid in room tempature
• Expands and contracts with heat
• Has high surface tension

WHY IS MERCURY HARD TO SEE

• It is because the sun is very bright and it mercury is closest to the sun
• And the suns light inter fears with that

MERCURY'S ROTATION

• The rotation period is very short because it spins so fast

MERCURY'S SURFACE

• Have many craters
• Has no tectonic plates

MERCURY'S INTERIOR

• It's more like the earth because of what it is made of
• Because it could be able to survive there
• It has a metallic core, intermediate rock layer, and a thin brittle crust
• And has a molten core

FUN FACTS

• Only two spacecraft have ever visited mercury