Mercury

Quick Facts

• Smallest planet and closes to the sun
• 35,980,000 miles from the sun
• 58,646 earth days
• 88 days in a year
• No moons
• Is made mostly of iron and very thin silicate crust
• Named after the messenger god
• The name comes from sumerians around 3,000 BC
• It would take 1,260 days to get from Mercury to Eart

Entertainment

• go into canyons
• tour craters
• clime mountains
• watch erupting volcanoes

This weeks weather

• 801 fahrenheit during the day
• -279 fahrenheit at night

Travel Essentials

• food
• water
• oxygen
• sunglasses/sunscreen
• clothes/pillows/blankets
• tents
• portable charger
• coats/heaters

Websites

• coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu
• planetfacts.org
• wikipedia
• space-facts.com
• space.com
• universetoday.co
• kidsastronomy.com