mercury planet

Mercury is the smallest and the first planet in the solar system. It’s very tricky to get information about planet mercury because it’s too close to the sun. They discovered that mercury’s revolving is the fastest, it takes 88 days to revolves once around the sun. They named planet mercury because of its speed in moving around it orbit. mercury has a very skinny atmospheres and its made of sodium and helium. It has magnetic field all over it, but it is not stronger than the field surrounding earth. Scientists discovered that there is only an iron-bearing core and silicon inside mercury. There is big difference between mercury and earth in diameters, mercury is 4879 km but the earth 12.756 and its rocky like earth. In fact, mercury and our moon are nearly the same size and similar in appearance. I hope you enjoy with the simple information about mercury planet.