Both the planet Mercury and the Moon are heavily cratered. There is little erosion because neither has a real atmosphere, or liquid water, or large scale geologic activity such as volcanoes.
This also means that the Moon has the same large temperature variations as Mercury (extremely hot in the sunlight, frigidly cold at night), but not to the same extremes as on Mercury. A location on the Moon will experience 14 Earth days of sunlight followed by 14 days of night. For Mercury, this period is 88 Earth days in the Sun followed by 88 days facing away.
No. Mercury has a much larger core than the moon does.
Mercury is roughly the same size, but it is bigger than our Moon.
No, because the Moon is not a planet. However, they are similar in several ways, especially their cratered surfaces.
Mercury has a surface landscape similar to the older areas of the Moon, characterized by extensive cratering and relatively few geological features caused by tectonic or volcanic activity. Venus also has a surface with volcanic plains and a high density of impact craters, similar to the Moon's older areas.
The most Mercury-like planets would be Venus, Earth and Mars. All 4 planets share similar composition, for example; a rocky surface, smaller diameter, and much denser body. -- But contrasted to Mercury; Earth, Venus, even Mars is quite a bit larger in size, and each of these planets has some sort of atmosphere. Mercury would be most comparable, really, to our own Moon. They are about the same size, and they are both geologically dead. In other words, both solar bodies have no atmosphere and no sub-surface geological activity.
The planet Mercury has the most similar cratered surface compared to the moon.
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Mercury looks a lot like the far side of the moon. It is lifeless and littered with countless craters.
No. Mercury has a much larger core than the moon does.
It's similar to our moon.
Mercury is most similar to Earth's moon. Like the moon it is a rocky, airless world covered in craters.
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Varying from the the distance from the Earth to the Moon + the distance from the sun to the earth + the distance from mercury to the sun, to the distance from the earth to the sun - the distance from mercury to the sun - the distance from the earth to the moon
Mercury is roughly the same size, but it is bigger than our Moon.
mercury has no atmosphere which means it is nothing like earths.
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If you want to know the order it's not sun, moon, earth It's Mercury, Venus and then earth.