Popular Posters of Planet Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the eighth largest. Mercury is slightly smaller in diameter than the moons Ganymede and Titan but more than twice as massive.
· orbit: 57,910,000 km (0.38 AU) from Sun
· diameter: 4,880 km
· mass: 3.30e23 kg
In Roman mythology Mercury is the god of commerce, travel and thievery, the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the Gods. The planet probably received this name because it moves so quickly across the sky.
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