1. By: Ingrid Gracia

2. Mercury was discovered in 2ooo. People that discovered Mercury were unknown. NAME AND DISCOVERY

3. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. Mercury is about 36 million miles (38 million kilometers)away from the sun. MERCURY’S POSITION IN THE SOLA R SYSTEM

4. Mercury’s egg-shaped orbit takes it around the sun in 88 days. It rotates in 59 days. ROTATION AND ITS AXIS

5. Mercury is 3,031 miles wide. Pluto is the only planet that is smaller than Mercury. Sun- scorched Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth’s moon. SIZE

6. The temperature at day is 279 degrees and at night it is below zero. TEMPERATURE

7. Mercury has almost no atmosphere.Mercury’s gravity is too weak to keep the gases around the planet.Mercury is visible just before sunrise or just after sunset. Mercury has very little atmosphere to stop impacts, and it is covered with craters. ATMOSPHERE

8. APPEARANCE Mercury is one of the four inner planets with rocky surfaces.

9. A person will not choke on mercury it would be much worse. Mercury’s gravity is 38% of the gravity here on Earth. HOW WOULD A HUMAN BEING FAIR ON PLANET MERCURY