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Mercury

Mercury is the first planet from the sun. Mercury has many different names, the Greeks called Mercury the god of commerce, travel and thievery. The Romans called Mercury the god of trade and profit. Mercury has an iron core and a cratered surface. It has a cratered surface because of its thin atmosphere which is caused by Solar Wind from the Sun.

Mercury is 57 million km from the sun while Earth is150 million km from the Sun so obviously a year is much shorter than ours, which is true. One year on Mercury is around 88 earth days and ours is 365, but because Mercury spins on it's axis so slow one day on Mercury is 58 earth days long! Mercury could never have life. as you know Mercury has a thin atmosphere so it can't contain much heat. When one half is facing the sun, the tempreture can reach 430 degrees and then on the other half it can get as low as -183 degrees!

Hopefully you know more about Mercury, and how the sun affects it!