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Why is mercury's temperature so hot during the day then so cold and night?
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∙ 10y ago
Mercury's temperature is so hot during the day because the atmosphere in Mercury is very thin, allowing a lot of heat to take in during the day and so cold at night because the atmoshere at night cannot hold the heat so it becomes extremly cold quickly.
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