Nasa has revealed the latest images of the mercury on their Instagram handle with the caption that the planet appears tan and shades of blue, with the craters marking the surface and allowing the scientists to analyze the geological features.
Stunning Colored Images of Mercury’s Cratered Surface
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This view of the most miniature planter of the solar system has been captured with the help of the MESSENGER, which is the first spacecraft ever to orbit the planet and which uses color-enhanced maps to differentiate the mineralogical, chemical, and physical differences in rocks on the surface of this planet.
Mercury is the most minor planet in the solar system, slightly larger than the Earth’s Moon and closer to the sun at an average of 58 million km away. Mercury may be the most minor planet in the solar system, but it is the speediest planet to travel in its orbit with an average speed of 47 km per second, which makes a year on it just 88 days on the earth.
Mercury has a thin exosphere instead of the atmosphere, consisting primarily of oxygen, hydrogen, sodium, helium, and potassium. Due to its lack of atmosphere and the closest to the sun, its day and night temperature dramatically ranges from 430ºC during the day to -180 ºC at night.
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