Solar System Earth Mercury Planet

Mercury is one of four terrestrial planets in the solar system and is a rocky body like earth.

Solar system earth mercury planet.

The order of the planets in the solar system starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following. It has a solid surface that is covered with craters like our moon. It s a little bigger than earth s moon. It is the smallest planet in the solar system with an equatorial radius of 2 439 7 kilometres 1 516 0 mi.

Mercury is also smaller albeit more massive than the largest natural satellites in the solar system ganymede and titan. Mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune and then the possible. From the surface of mercury the sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from earth and the sunlight would be as much as seven times brighter. Despite its proximity to the sun mercury is not the hottest planet in our solar system that title belongs to nearby venus thanks to its dense atmosphere.

Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system. Of the objects that orbit the sun directly the largest are the eight planets with the remainder being smaller objects the dwarf planets and small solar system bodies of the objects that orbit the sun indirectly the moons two are larger than the smallest planet. In fact it says that every other planet in the solar. The solar system is the gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit it either directly or indirectly.