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Mercury is the smallest planet of the solar system. (True /False)


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Answer: True

Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system. It is only slightly larger than Earth’s moon.

Features of Mercury

Listed below are the few features of Mercury

  • One day on Mercury takes 59 Earth days.
  • Mercury makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Mercury time) in just 88 Earth days.
  • Mercury is a rocky planet, also known as a terrestrial planet.
  • Mercury’s thin atmosphere, or exosphere, is composed mostly of oxygen (O2), sodium (Na), hydrogen (H2), helium (He), and potassium (K).
  • Mercury has no moons.

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  1. The smallest planet in the solar system is (1) Mars (2) Jupiter (3) Mercury (4) Earth
  2. Which is the nearest planet to the Earth?

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