Thursday, December 13, 2007

Mercury

Our galaxy has one big star and eight planets that revolve with their own time. Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn need thousand days to revolve one time but for Earth, Mars, and Venus it just takes hundred days. The fastest planet that revolves around the sun is Mercury. Mercury just needs eighty-eight days or around two months to revolve the sun. Mercury’s distance from the sun is only about 36 millions of miles, this distance are much more nearer than the earth distance to the sun about 67 millions of miles.
Besides having the fastest time to revolve the sun, Mercury has many special features. For example, Mercury also the closest planet to the sun because of that it has a very high temperature. In mid day the temperature are around 212-392 Fahrenheit. With this temperature, water will evaporated so in Mercury there isn’t any water. Other special thing is Mercury’s diameter. Unlike other planets that have diameter around 7,000 Mercury’s diameter is 3,032.
Mercury was found by Mariner 310 in 1975 after the scientist discover Jupiter. After that in 2004 the Messenger space craft was launched to enter Mercury’s orbit for one year. Until now scientists believe that there aren’t any living creature in Mercury because there is no water or any indication from alien. Now days there are still many mysterious things about Mercury. But with the Messenger space craft is going back in 2011 we can learn more about Mercury and may be even track a new indication from alien.

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