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Does mercury have an equator

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

-- If a planet spins, then it has a spin axis.

-- If it has a spin axis, then it has poles.

-- An equator is just the line made up of all the points that are midway

between the poles. So if the planet has poles, then it has an equator.

-- Mercury spins.

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