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Mercury is a planet in our solar system with the following traits:

Size: 3,031 miles wide (4,878 km)

Location in Solar System: 1st planet from the sun

Distance from Sun: 36 million miles (58 million km)

Year (length of revolution around sun): 88 earth days (shortest in solar system)

Day (length of rotation): 59 days (earth time)

Landscape: Pocked with craters like the moon, because there is no atmosphere to burn up meteors. It has daytime temperatures of 800°F (400° C) and nighttime temperatures of -300°F (-185° C).

Moons: none

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Next Generation Science Standards Connection

ESS1. A The universe and its stars

ESS1. B Earth and the solar system

Patterns of movement of the sun, moon, and stars as seen from Earth can be bserved, described, and predicted

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