6/5/09

Closest to the sun

Mercury is the closest to the sun. It is also the smallest planet, being two-fifth the size of earth. Like our moon, mercury is a bare, rocky planet covered with thousands of millions of craters. If you were on mercury, the sun will appear many times larger and brighter than it looks from earth. This is because mercury is only abotu 58 million kilomtres away from it. You will fry if you were on the side of mercury facing the sun because it is very hot
Do you know a year in mercury is a long s eighty-eight earth days? But a day in mercury is nearly as long as a year!