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| smallest terrestrial planet |
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fast cause close to sun
88 earth days |
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2 sides:
boiling hot + frozen
similar to moon, no maria
+ craters with dark halos
intercrater plains
ancient lava flows
volcanism
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| highly reflective ice always in shadowed craters |
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partially molten iron
relative to size, largest |
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| composers, writers, painters |
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like earth
high mass density (same as earth)
solar winds/collision? remove light mantle |
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mysterious
dipole magnetic field, even though mercury rotates slowly
partially molten core
magnetic coupling via connection with local external environment |
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| planet invented to explain weird orbit, doesnt exist |
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| planets closest point to sun |
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advances past predicted place
space is curved near sun (space fabric)
einstien |
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