Mercury Planet Research Paper

Mercury: the planet mercury is a greyish brown planet that resembles to the moon so much that they are nearly identical. The planet Mercury is, just like the moon, filled with many, many, craters. The planet mercury is the planet closest to the sun or of the eight planets. The planet mercury is also filled with many, many rocks. In our lesson we learned that mercury travels around the orbit in not 88 earth days, but 59 earth days. In 1974, a muggle prove was sent up there to the planet mercury to study it. The planet mercury is, one of the 7 planets that don't have a single life form on it, well that's in any records. The planet mercury is 1,516 miles in size. Next i will move on to venus.

It is believed that only 55% of Mercury has been mapped, however, that 55% has yielded a number of interesting finds, there are three significant geological features on Mercury, these are: smooth plains, intercrater plains and rugged highlands. The smooth plains resemble Lunar Maria, that is, large dark basaltic plains formed by ancient volcanic eruption, found on the Earth’s moon. The Intercrater Plains are impact craters, pocked with a number of smaller craters, which cover 70% of the examined surface. These craters are particularly deep, due to the planets lack of an atmosphere to slow the bodies before impact. The rugged highlands resemble mountainous regions of the Earth; however, there is no evidence of tectonic motions to have caused them. Mercury is made up of predominately iron, its crust is only 500-600km thick and there is evidence of volcanic activity, although it is believed that the planet has been geologically dormant for billions of years.

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is a rocky planet. The heavily cratered planet suggests that meteors or comets were frequent many, many years ago. Mercury's boulder littered surface and pale gray appearance slightly resembles Earth's moon. Like Mars, Mercury is covered in pulverized dust. What Mercury lacks in this, is weather. Muggle probes bring images to us that show no signs of wind, dust storms, or clouds. No rivers have been found on Mercury. Lack of clouds and rivers, (and oceans) suggests that there is no water on the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. One of Mercury's most famous craters is Caloris basin, which is 1550 km in diameter. Another of Mercury's most famous craters is called Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff is 306 km in diameter. These two very large craters were created by astroids impacting the planet in Mercury's early history.

The thicker sections fo the plates are the continents; the thinner parts make up the ocean beds. When two plates meet, the result is geologic upheaval on a vast scale. Such an encounter occurred about 20 million years ago in the region between North and South America. The Cocos Plate, a piece of the Pacific crust some 300 miles wide, moved eastward until it met the crustal plate underlying the Caribbean. The eastern edge of the Cocos Plate was driven beneath the western edge of the Caribbean Plate. As the Cocos Plate was forced downward, the friction, as well as the hear deep within the earth, liquefied its rock into magma, which found release by thrusting up in a chain of volcanoes. The volcanic islands that resulted formed a line of stepping-stones between the northern and southern

The surface of Mercury is littered with craters. These craters are believed to have been created by collisions from debris. Mercurys' craters range from small circular craters to multi-ridged impact basin. These basin are formed either when there was a large collision followed by a few small collisions or from many smaller collisions. The largest known crater on Mercury is called the Caloris Basin. This crater has a diameter of approximately 1500 kilometres across and surprisingly resides in a rather flat part of Mercurys' surface.

Mercury is like a large rock. Its surface geology is quite similar to Earth's moon. It has many craters from ancient impacts, and also basins and plains. Some of the craters have filled with lava from the planet's interior, and have become lava plains as a result. Boulders and dust from pulverized rock are found on the surface. There are no rivers. The Mariner 10 and Messenger missions sent back many pictures of Mercury's surface, so we know that there is no weather there to affect the surface. From a geological standpoint, Mercury is identified as a planet that has been long dead. Even though it has not been completely mapped by cameras, scientists studying Mercury believe that its surface has not changed for billions of years.

Mercury's surface is covered with craters, rocks and dust, resulting in a rather barren appearance. It is thought that Mercury's surface greatly resembles that of our Moon which orbits Earth. The study of the surface features by Schiaparelli and his logging of their movements led him to conclude that Mercury always faces the same side towards the Sun. The craters on Mercury's surface range in size from the relatively small, to huge impact craters caused by collisions with asteroids or meteors. The biggest known crater on Mercury, the Caloris Basin, was one of these, with a diameter of 1550km square. The Messenger spacecraft has created a digital imagery of some of Mercury's surface, and identified 15 of these impact craters. There can also be found plains, such as the Odin Planitia, named for the Norse God Odin. There are also mountains, such as the Caloris Montes, valleys such as

The geology of Mercury is similar to the geology of the Moon. Although, Mercury is a much denser planet with a larger liquid iron core. The surface of Mercury is covered by impact craters. Although, only 55% of the Mercury has been mapped in enough detail to see its geology. Some of the largest craters were filled with lava from Mercury’s interior. Craters on Mercury can be small bowl-shaped pockets, or huge impact craters. The largest crater on Mercury is the Caloris Basin. There have been about 15 large impact basins that have been identified on Mercury. Just like the Moon, the larger craters have bright rays of material; it’s brighter because it hasn’t been as weathered by impacts. One of the unique places on Mercury are the regions around

Mercury appears to have similarities to Earth's moon. Like our moon, Mercury’s surface is covered with craters that scientists believe could have been caused by space rock impacts. The temperature of Mercury ranges from 640 degrees Fahrenheit to -180 degrees Fahrenheit. Even though the planet Mercury is the closest to the sun, it is not the warmest planet. Also, Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system.

Mercury, named after the Roman God of Thievery, Commerce, and Travel, is the first planet from the Sun. It is unique because it shows at both morning rise and evening set of the sun. It is rocky, heavily cratered, covered in boulders, and also pulverized dust. The majority of it's surface bears a strong resemblance to that of Earth's moon. It's lack of atmosphere causes wild temperature fluctuations. Temperatures can range from 90 kelvin to 700 kelvin thus creating a planet, from all observations, that cannot sustain life--it is geologically dead. Mercury also has a magnetic field generated by the planet's core that can deflect solar wind and which has a magnetosphere that changes. This was surprising for such a slow rotating planet--one that rotates completely every 88 Earth days.

The rocky surface of Mercury is littered with craters that can’t be seen by the naked eye, and has to be viewed down a telescope to view. The craters are deeper on Mercury than most planets due to the lack of atmosphere to slow colliding celestial objects, the largest known crater being Caloris Basin at 1550km. Despite there being no atmosphere, there is a thick layer of dust smothering the planet, tainting the celestial body with a more distinguished bronze hue than its dull grey colour. The craters seem darker in colour, and the surface of Mercury contains no signs of clouds, rivers of dust storm or any weather conditions. The surface of Mercury could easily pass off as the celestial sibling of Earth’s moon, and is thought to be geologically

Mercury's surface geology is similar in appearance to that of the Moon, showing extensive plains and heavy cratering, indicating that it has been geologically inactive for billions of years. Mercury was heavily bombarded by comets and asteroids during and shortly following its formation 4.6 billion years ago, separate subsequent episode. During this period of intense crater formation, the planet received impacts over its entire surface. During this time the planet was also volcanically active, leading to more interesting geological impacts. Craters on Mercury range in diameter from small cavities to huge impact basins and range in all states of degradation. There are two distinct plains that are present on Mercury. These inter-crater plains appear to have superseded many of the early craters, and signs of these early craters are still visible to sight.

Wow! She wasn’t kidding! I count about 54 craters before I lose count, and I am sure I can only see a fraction of its surface. Since Mercury doesn’t have much of an Atmosphere, it is a frequent target to meteors. Muggle scientists believe that there might even be ice in some craters…

Did You Know that Mercury, takes 59 days to make a rotation but only 88 days to circle

. The two inner planets Mercury and Venus moves from east to west along the ecliptic between their time of greatest distance from the Sun to the east as an evening star and their greatest elongation west as a morning star.