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Chapter 7, Problem 29TYU
Temperatures on Mercury are (a) always very hot; (b) very hot in the day and very cold at night; (c) about the same as those on Venus.
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LINE IN UNIV 4E LL W/MOD MAST ASTRONOMY
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