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Because of Mercury being three times closer to the sun than earth is, and its almost non-existent atmosphere, Mercury gets more than 10 times the sunlight earth does at its perihelion.

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Since Mercury is closest to the Sun, Sun's rays are 7 time stronger than Earth and Sun seems 2 ½ times bigger in Mercury's sky. Temperature at day is 801 Fahrenheit [427 Celsius] and at night -279 F [-173 C].

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About 3.2 minutes ( 36,000,000 miles at 186282 miles/sec)

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Mercury has the same sun as ours.

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Because of Mercury being three times closer to the sun than earth is, and its almost non-existent atmosphere, Mercury gets more than 10 times the sunlight earth does at its perihelion.

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it takes 3.2 mins for sunlight to hit mercury.

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