Mercury: Similar To The Earth's Moon

As the Narneys inside the crater further evolve they start to grow taller and taller. This goes against Mercury’s gravity but this helps them survive. Being taller means that they can capture more sunlight.

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.

Mercury has 121 neutrons and 80 protons in its nucleus. It also has 6 electron shells with 2 electrons in the first shell, 8 electrons in the second shell, 18 electrons in shell 3, 32 electrons in the fourth shell, 18 electrons in the fifth shell and 2 in the sixth

Mercury is also the smallest planet in our solar system, it is slightly larger than Earth’s moon in fact. Astronomers think about 4 billion years ago an asteroid roughly 60 miles (100 kilometers) wide hit Mercury with an impact equal to 1 trillion leaving a vast impact crater. The crater is known as Caloris Basin and the crater can hold the whole state of Texas. In 2012 NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft discovered that there are water ice in the craters in the north pole on Mercury. The north pole on Mercury may be shaded permanently from the sun, that's why the water ice can be there. The south pole on Mercury may have also contained water ice but the MESSENGERS orbit didn’t allow scientists to probe the area. Scientists think that comets or meteorites may have delivered the water ice there. Even though Mercury is already really small it continues to shrink today. Mercury is made up of a single continental plate over a cooling iron core. When the core cools, it solidifies, reducing the planet’s volume which causes Mercury to shrink and get even

Mercury is the smallest planet and is closest to the sun. It's a small, rocky planet that resembles the moon superficially. While the pockmarked surface and rugged terrain suggests a turbulent history, Mercury is no longer geologically active and has not been active for a long time. Mercury has a heavy iron-based core that is proportionally larger than that of any other planet, including Earth. Mercury has a much longer "day" than Earth. For every two Mercury-years, there are only three days. If earth rotated as slowly, each day would last about eight months. This really puts into perspective how slowly the small planet rotates. Despite its slow rotation, its magnetic field has become stronger and more dynamic since its first discovery. There has been a significant change in the geological instant of 35 years.

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's surface geology is much like the Moon's. Although, Mercury is a much denser planet and has a much larger liquid iron core. Mercury's surface is also covered in lava plains and impact craters. Some of Mercury's craters are also filled with lava from Mercury's interior. Although only 55% percent of Mercury's surface has been mapped by scientists. Craters can be bowl shaped or huge impact craters. The largest crater on Mercury's surface is called the Caloris Basin. There have been about 15 identified impact craters on Mercury's surface. Similar to the Moon's surface, the largest craters have bright rays of material. The reason these are bright is because they have not been as weathered by other impacts. Mercury's poles have a large deposit of ice water on them. That is why Mercury's surface geology is unique.

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 should not be a surprise that the temperature during Mercury’s day is intense, but Mercury’s night is notable as well. The average temperature at night is -279° F. This is due to no atmosphere. Another interesting feature is that it is almost as dense as Earth. This suggests that after Mercury was struck with an asteroid after it already had differentiated. By far, the most interesting discovery is that radar images show that there might be ice on Mercury. The next planet is further from the sun, but even hotter than Mercury.

Mercury may be a distinctive metal and anyone sees mercury for the primary time cannot help by being fascinated by its unimaginable nature. In the past mercury was referred to as 'quicksilver', the silver was alive. The origins of this name may be supported the very fact that once liquid mercury is poured on a flat surface, it forms little beads that move around as if they're alive. Lavoisier, a French chemist, distinguished mercury as a component. Mercury is combined with gold to facilitate the recovery of gold from its minerals.

It was a clear but frigid December morning when I decided to complete my observations of the planet Mercury. I knew I would have to get up very early if I was to catch the sunrise, and with it one of the moments of the day at which Mercury is most clearly visible. I had brought with me the magical telescope lent to me by Professor Turing. This telescope could zoom in much farther than even the lab-grade Muggle telescopes. With this magical telescope, on such a cloudless day, I would be able to make detailed observations of Mercury.

One of these terrestrial planets, Mercury is the topic of the next section. Mercury, one of the smallest planets, has a surface similar to that of a moon because it is cratered with some smoother areas. However, it is distinct from the moon in that the plains are the same color as the cratered areas. Mercury

Mercury is a rocky planet which is rough in appearance, due to the fact that it was heavily cratered and is covered in boulders and dust. It was discovered by the Messenger probe in 2008, that Mercury looks very similar to a moon in terms of appearance. Mercury, named so for the Roman god of thievery, mostly appears white and grey (Like Earth’s moon, Luna) when spotted, but with the right filters applied, it can appear light blue and light orange, with streaks of darker blue and darker orange throughout. Similar to Earth’s moon, Mercury always keeps one side (the same side) turned towards the sun at all times. Mercury has no atmosphere, and thus so, is not protected from the sun’s rays, causing the temperature on Mercury to swing anywhere from 90 degrees to 700 degrees Kelvin, which could result in Mercury’s dusty and

Mercury is an elemental transition metal on the periodic table that has some properties that make it unique. It’s most notable trait is that it has one of the lowest melting points of any metal, melting at only -37.89°F. This means that it is a firmly a shiny silver liquid at room temperature. Mercury also only very rarely occurs in nature in its pure state so it is mined from ores like cinnabar (Royal Society of Chemistry). The second most notable trait about mercury is that it is toxic to humans.

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.