Planet Mercury

The planet Mercury does not have a breathable atmosphere and is generally not an easy place to live, but with sufficient technological support people could live there. People live on the international space station, where they also have to bring their own air with them, and where they face similar difficulties to those which they might face on the planet Mercury. It would be expensive but not impossible (but then, the same is true of health care reform).

A 1000-pound person would weigh approximately 380 pounds on Mercury due to its weaker gravity compared to Earth. Mercury has only about 38% of Earth's gravitational pull.

A rock always weighs something unless in free fall. If you are asking why that rock doesn't sink in mercury, its because rock density is 2-3 while mercury is 7.6. The object with higher density will sink. In the case of water, a rock is more dense than water(having a density of 1) and sinks in water.

Mercury's symbol is Hg, which comes from its Latin name "hydrargyrum." The symbol Hg is derived from the Greek word "hydrargyros," meaning "water-silver," as mercury has a shiny, silver appearance.

The night side of Mercury is not receiving any direct sunlight. Because Mercury is so close to the sun, the day side of Mercury has a significant increase in heat.

Although being closer to the sun, Mercury is the colder of the two planets. Venus's thick atmosphere allows for a greater greenhouse effect, trapping heat easily and retaining it for longer than Mercury can.

The inner planets have temperature ranges that vary widely. Mercury, being closest to the Sun, can reach temperatures as high as 800°F (430°C) during the day and as low as -290°F (-180°C) at night. Venus has an average surface temperature of about 900°F (475°C), making it the hottest planet in our solar system due to its thick atmosphere trapping heat. Earth has an average surface temperature of about 59°F (15°C), while Mars has an average surface temperature of around -80°F (-62°C).

Because the planet Mercury is quite slow but pretty fast to orbit the sun. It takes 88 Earth days to orbit the sun so it doesn't have wind. The planet has a circled shape so there are 2 sides the dark and the light which concludes that it is cold on one side and hot on the other.

it just depends what side you are on... say like if you were on the side facing the sun you could burn in a minimum of 2 minutes. and if you were at the other side you could freeze in a minimum of 6 minutes. and if you were in the middle you could get poisoned because whatever side you are on the sun can poison you because it is a chemical reaction

As with Earth, the sun on Mercury rises in the east and sets in the west. Mercury has a very long solar day though.

Mercury takes 88 days to go around the sun, so its year is 88 solar days. It spins very slowly on its axis though, once every 58.6 days relative to background stars. A solar (apparent) day on Mercury takes 176 days, because of this slow spin relative to the time taken to orbit.

For Venus, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Venus has a very long solar day as well, due to the the chracteristics of its orbit and axial spin.

Yes. All of the major planets except Venus rotate (spin) counterclockwise, west to east.

No, there are no rings around the Moon. Only the planet Saturn is known to have a prominent ring system in our solar system.

During the day, temperatures on Mercury can reach up to around 800 degrees Fahrenheit (427 degrees Celsius) due to its proximity to the Sun. At night, temperatures can drop drastically to around -290 degrees Fahrenheit (-179 degrees Celsius) as there is no atmosphere to retain heat.

Mercury is 400 degrees in the day time and minus 180 degrees at night time

To get to Mercury you have to wait for 10,000 years to get there, so it would be 10,000 plus 12

22,000 is gonna be your age when you arrive, so that means that no one can get to Mercury, Only space probes, Space probes travel so fast that they get to Mercury in one day!!!!!

A 12 year old mercurian would be 12 years old - just that their year is shorter than our (earth) year.

Mercury orbits the sun in approx 88 earth days so for every earth year, the mercurians would experience approx 4.15 mercurian years.

So in the time someone reaches 12 years old on earth, a mercurian would have reached approx 49.81 mercurian years old.

But as the mercurian day is approx 2/3 a mercurian year, a 12 year earthling is approx 4380 earth days old, whereas the 49.81 mercurian is only about 75 mercurian days old.

Mercury is less hotter than Venus because it has a thin atmosphere and the heat that is attracted during day time goes away at night and the temperature becomes -170 degrees while Venus has a thick atmosphere and does not allow heat to pass.

Scientifically, it would have been the element. Our solar system was created by a planetary disk some million ( or billion)years ago and the element was created ever since the big bang or the creation of the universe

Hey, also, our solar system is quite young compared to others that have been discovered, so it is logical to say that mercury was created first.

You can physically walk on Mercury, but since it is so close to the sun and it lacks an atmosphere, on side would be burning and the other would be extremely cold. I don't think you can survive either of the extreme temperatures.

The radius of the orbit is equal to the planet's distance from the Sun. For Mercury, this varies between 46 million and 70 million kilometers, with a mean distance of 58 million kilometers.

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There is no great amount of the element mercury on the planet Mercury. They are just named for the same Roman god. Being a smaller planet, there should be less metallic mercury within Mercury than is found within Earth, but this cannot be absolutely determined quantitatively. There are no measurable amounts of mercury vapor in Mercury's atmosphere.

Atmospheric Composition of Mercury:

42% Molecular oxygen

29.0% sodium

22.0% hydrogen

6.0% helium

0.5% potassium

Trace amounts of argon, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapor, xenon, krypton, and neon.

Gravity behaves exactly the same on Mercury as it does everywhere else in the

universe. Taking into consideration the mass and radius of Mercury, you would

calculate that the the acceleration due to gravity at its surface, and therefore

the weight of any object on its surface, are about 38% of what they are on Earth,

and you'd be correct. That's what they are.

Most of the planets were formed about the same time so we can cannot yet answer that question.

the moon is a planet satellite (object orbiting a planet), there is no capital!!!!!!! and no one lives there to make one

The largest planet outside our solar system is currently believed to be a gas giant known as WASP-17b, which is located about 1,000 light-years away from Earth. It is nearly twice the size of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.