the sun and nine planets. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. Mercury was named after the Roman God of Commerce and Thievery. It might have gotten its name because of the way it quickly appears and disappears from Earth’s view. Mercury is the second smallest planet in the solar system; Pluto is the only planet that is smaller. Earth’s diameter is about 7‚200‚ while tiny Mercury has less than half of that size‚ about 3‚000 miles in diameter. Mercury‚ a planet‚ is smaller than Ganymede‚ a satellite
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Mercury is the second smallest planet in the solar system. It is 4‚879 kilometers across. Compare that with our moon‚ which is 3456 km across‚ and you can see that mercury is not very big. In fact‚ Jupiter’s moons Ganymede and Callisto and Saturn’s moon Titan are bigger! Even though those moons are bigger‚ Mercury weighs a lot more than they do because it is made of mostly metal and rock. In fact‚ Mercury has the most metals for its size of any planet in the solar system. Mercury is also the closest
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Mercury is a metallic element that is naturally found in rocks within the earth’s crust. It is dispersed into the environment in various ways such as soil‚ weathering of rocks‚ volcanoes‚ mining coal combustion‚ power plants‚ municipal waste and even the products used in the household or for health. Since mercury naturally occurs in the environment‚ it can exist in several forms and there are three main forms it takes on; there is Elemental mercury‚ organic mercury and inorganic mercury and each
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Although there are bounteous number of ways that the United States is better than any other country in the world. There are many of reasons why America is better than any other country in the world‚ but there are many that are better than the rest. Above all‚ there are plenty of immigrants who come to America because America has the best army over all the other nations in the world. America’s army is the best because no one is forced to do what they do not want to do. When people are in the army
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Mercury the closest planet to the Sun: Mercury‚ and the other inner planets‚ condense from the heavier elementes. Condensing closest of all to the sun‚ Mercury is rock solid. Outwardly‚ Mercury is like our Moon: rocky‚ cratered‚ barren. But inside‚ like Earth‚ is an iron-rich core. That core is as big as the Moon and‚ at 70% iron‚ Mercury is the densest planet of all. Also Mercury’s day is twice as long as its year. The day lasts 176 Earth days‚ the year just 88. But it gets stranger... If you
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Life on Other Planets Life on other planets‚ Is there another titan planet out there that harbors life? Scientist have found two such planets in a neighboring but distant Solar System. Which planets are habitable and is there already life there or basically in general‚ “Is there life in outer space?” That is the question and debate among astrologists and scientist alike about this discovery of two planets that orbit the red dwarf star of Gliese 581 (Gliese 581c.eu). The fascination of intelligent
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Continental Temperature Ranges Introduction: There are large variations in average monthly temperatures among cities located at the same latitude. This suggests that factors besides the angle and duration of isolation affect the rate heating and cooling of any given location. Objective: You will graph the average monthly temperatures of costal and inland continental regions and interpret the range in temperatures. Vocabulary: Temperature range- Average daily temperature Average monthly
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Does life exist other than here? I believe the chance of extraterrestrial life existing in this universe is significantly high due to scientific research and physical and visual evidence that have been acquired recently. With recent discoveries and research‚ science makes it seem that life on other planets around the universe more possible. First‚ many earthlike planets have been found throughout the universe. One particular “Super Earth‚” a large earthlike planet‚ is 50 percent bigger than
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life on other planets because there hasn’t been any proof to verify such. Scientists continue to search and improve technology to see if they can one day find life on other planets. Til this day there has not been any proof of such living things on any of the other planets. I do know there is a continuous search for the answer if there is life on other planets. I do know it’s possible considering how enormous the Universe is. There is a high possibility of life existing outside our planet. There
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Does Life Truly Exist on Other Planets? Life is defined‚ by Merriam Webster‚ as “an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism growth‚ reaction to stimuli‚ and reproduction.” Every single person in the world at this moment is alive and is experiencing life. Planet Earth is home to thousands of species of living animals and was home to thousands more that have now become extinct. Humans have only existed a fraction of the time the Earth has. Many animals predate our own existence. Throughout
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