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=Mercury= 3 031 miles away from the Earth a little planet rotats around the sun. It's name can only be Mercury. It's named after an Italian god Mercury. Mercury has many basins all around it. A basin is a big crater formed by a metor hiting it. Inside these basin are large amounts of ice. Even though Murcury is the closest to the sun, the sun may not hit particular places in these basins, so the ice may never melt.



A Day On Mercury
A day on Mercury can be very interesting, temperature wise any ways. It can get up to 800 degrees fahrenhieit or 430 degrees celsis. Thats 300 degrees hoter than an oven can go. Also one day on Mercury is equivilant to two years on earth. It would take eighty-eight earth days to make one trip around the sun.

Facts about Mercury
Since Mercury is too far away and to hot for any human to visit, scientists sent a satellite to Mercury to pick up facts. The Mariner 10 was the name of the satellite, it blasted off in 1973. Mariner 10 reached Mercury on March 29, 1974. Once there it took many pictures of the planet. Every 176 days the Mariner would pass Mercury taking more pictures and collecting facts. The Mariner 10 made it possible for scientists to get their first up close at Mercury. The photos of Mercury that were sent back looked alot like the surface of our moon with craters, mountains and plains. Almost every thing scientists know about Mercury is because of the pictures sent back by Mariner 10.