Welcome to Mercury

Q. What do you know about Mercury?

Solar System

Mercury is the smallest planet

Mercury can only been before sunrise or sunset

Mercury has lots of holes and craters

Mercury has very little or no atmosphere

The Romans named the planet after Mercury, a

messenger for the Roman

Gods.

Rotation VS Revolution

1 Rotation = 1 Day 1 Revolution= 1 Year

How long is a day on Mercury?

It takes Mercury 59 days to rotate

once. That means that 1 day on

Mercury = to 59 Earth days

One full rotation on the axis

How long is 1 year on Mercury?

• It takes Mercury 88 days to revolve around the sun

Q. What’s inside Mercury?

Fast Facts• Mercury is the closest planet to the sun

• It’s about the same size as Earth’s moon

• It has very little atmosphere and gets very hot and very cold

• It has no moons

• 1 day on Mercury= 59 Earth days

• 1 year on Mercury = 88 Earth days