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Mercury's surface is barren, arid, waterless and airless. Being so close to the Sun it is subjected to the full intensity of the Sun's light, ultra-violet and infra-red radiation, as well as blasts of high-speed particles thrown out by solar flares. The surface is heavily cratered from meteoric impacts, and there is also evidence of ancient lava flows in the distant past.

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