Venus's Planet Venus

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, 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 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.

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.

While the diameter of Venus is 12,092 km, when compared to the Earth Venus is only 650 km smaller. Even though the Earth and Venus share a lot of similarities such as composition of the ground, gravity, and diameter, this is where the differences come in. Earth is capable of supporting life; Venus is hazardous to life. The Earth has liquid water, and hard rocky surface, Venus’ land masses is made of hardened magma, with very little rocky surfaces. Another key difference between the two planets is Venus has a weaker magnetic field when compared to the Earth. Venus also spins very slowly once per 243 Earth days; this could be the result of Venus’ core not being as active or even if it if

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

However, it turns out that Mars is much more hospitable to life on its surface than Venus. Due to its runaway greenhouse effect, our sister planet is the hottest planet in our solar system. Temperatures on the Venusian surface can reach smoldering temperatures of nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit, hot

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.

Venus is like the planet of hell. It has acid clouds and volcanoes. It is a nice 900 *F. The air is filled with foul and corrosive sulfur. This planet has water but not a lot of it.

Venus is the next terrestrial planet and it is only slightly smaller than Earth and is the second planet from the sun. One day on Venus is longer than a year due to its slow rotation. It takes 243 Earth days to complete one rotation and rotates in the opposite direction of all other planets except Uranus, and is roughly 67 million miles from the sun. Venus much like Mercury has no moons to speak of and is often referred to as the morning star and the evening star as it is also one of the 5 planets visible to the naked eye and it is the 3rd brightest object in our sky besides the moon and sun. It is the same with the discovery of mercury it has been visible but nobody knew what it was until Copernicus unveiled

The terrestrial planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These planets are composed primarily of silicate rocks with structures consisting of a central metallic core, mostly iron, with a surrounding silicate mantle.

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

Venus choked in smog, a crushing atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Venus, shaped by volcanoes. Venus, where day and night it’s always 480 degrees Celsius yet no Sun ever penetrates these poisonous skies. Venus is a puzzle, it rotates just once in 243 days, yet clouds race around the planet in four. And, with a diameter of more than 12.000 kilometres. Venus is almost the size of Earth, but few twins are so different. Once, Venus may have been like Earth with oceans, continents and clear blue skies.

Mercury’s surface is quite unique, due to Mercury being the planet closest to the sun and essentially having no atmosphere it results in being one of the hottest planets. Mercury’s surface when facing the sun can have a temperature of above 500 Kelvin or approximately 441F. Having said that without a present atmosphere it means that the dark side or the night side can have temperatures as low as 100K or -279F. With 59 days to complete a full rotation on its axis, it means that Mercury goes from extremely hot to extremely cold for long periods of time.

Mercury which is the planet that is closest to the sun is the first planet I will discuss. Mercury is the smallest of the inner