Mercury's Surface Geology

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.

The atmosphere on Venus is composed of mostly Carbon dioxide with small amounts of nitrogen and sulphuric acid. This composition causes a runaway greenhouse gas effect that makes the planet even hotter than Mercury, despite the fact that Mercury is much closer to the sun. The air on Venus is incredibly dense due to the Nitrogen content, which, whilst admittedly is only a small part of the atmospheric composition, is at least four times the amount on Earth. This Atmospheric composition therefore creates a thick layer of

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 is the closes to the sun and Venus is 2nd close to the sun. Mercury and Venus are inter planets that means they are two of the 4 inter planets. They are not made of gas that is only the outer planets are the only ones that can be made of gas. Venus earth's closest neighbor in the solar system. Venus is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon, and sometimes looks like a bright star in the morning or evening sky but I have never seen it before. Mercury is named for the ancient Roman god of trade and profit the roman people believed in many

Mercury is a rocky, gray planet that very closely resembles the Earth’s Moon on the surface. Mercury’s surface is full of craters, boulders, and pulverized dust. Its many craters can be tiny or massive. Mercury is geologically inactive, and has been for an extended amount of time. There is an absence of weather on Mercury, and it does not have an atmosphere. Because it has no atmosphere, it cannot control the variations in temperature from day to night, and the temperatures on the planet can range from 90 Kelvin to 700 Kelvin. There are no signs of clouds, rivers (or any other body of water), or dust storms on Mercury. What we know about Mercury and its surface is from information brought back by Mariner 10 and the Messenger mission in the last few decades.

The first planet after the Sun, Mercury, has very similar geological features with the Earth's moon. Its surface is covered with varying sizes of craters which was used by scientists to determine the planet's age. It is said that these craters are the "scars" from asteroid and comets during the Late Heavy Bombardment Period. Measuring 1550km, the Caloris Basin is the largest crater in Mercury's surface and 14 other large crater basins were found. Although it has been identified that Mercury's surface is geologically inactive, large deposits of water ice can be found near its poles. These bodies of water ice were found on deep craters around Mercury's poles and are always in the shadows. If one side of the planet is covered with craters, another

Mercury's surface is very rocky and covered in boulders and pulverized dust. The surface is also filled with craters. The planet is a grey color. It is the smallest planet but very dense. The surface of Mercury is very similar to the surface of the moon, but Mercury has more smooth plains. On Mercury you will not find any clouds, dust storms, rivers or any other sign of weather. The planets magnetic field keeps any winds away from it. Mercury has a mainly iron rich core. The planet will always be facing the sun on one side, lighting up half of its surface. The side facing the sun is very hot, while the side not facing the sun gets very cold. There is absolutely no sign of anything living on Mercury, and there has not been any for a long time.

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 surface of Mercury is very rocky, and has many pits and craters on it due to the large number of meteors that have collided with the surface over the years. According to all all observations that muggle spacecraft has made, the surface of Mercury is dead, with no signs of life or liquid water. This is largely due to its lack of atmosphere and extreme temperatures. Also due to the lack of atmosphere, Mercury has no weather or wind, and the surface has few distinguishing features such as riverbeds or dust storms. Much of the surface is similar to the surface of Earth's moon. Beneath the surface of mercury is a solid core, which is very rich in iron deposits. The core is large compared to the total size of the planet, the largest ratio of any planet or dwarf planet in our solar system.

Mercury's surface is heavily cratered. There are two distinct types of craters that can be observed on Mercury's surface; the more common impact crater - formed during asteroid impact, and pit craters - formed from the collapse of subterranean magma chambers. The former, impact craters, are typically more circular in shape and are accompanied by high ridges around the perimeter of the impact where debris from the impact was ejected. The latter, pit craters, are more irregular in shape and do not have the perimeter ridges. On the smoother plains of the surface compression folds can be seen, these are thought to be caused by the cooling of Mercury's core causing the surface to contract. The surface of Mercury consists of dark porous rock and because

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.

After the sun sets, the planet Mercury is out. The telescope rocks back and forth from the wind, but a small charm is cast and it stabilizes. The brightness of the moon is distracting to the plain eye, but this telescope was enchanted to focus. With the light dying and the wind whipping around the Astronomy Tower, you'd think it would be hard to see the details of Mercury, but the planet was in perfect view. The surface of the planet looked like a burn victims skin, craters upon craters devoured the graying celestial object. Boulders covered the area that was smooth and the bottom of the pits. Mercury's craters had formed in paths that looked almost like rivers flowing on the surface, which, upon closer inspection, proved to be almost accurate.

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 surface has volcanoes and smooth plains. " Much of the volcanic activity on Venus takes the form of Basaltic eruptions that inundate large ares, much as the mare volcanism flooded the impacted basins on the near side of the moon " (Morrison, 93,