5 Need-to-Know Facts about MERCURY. - Deepstash

5 Need-to-Know Facts about MERCURY.

On mercury Daytime Temperatures can reach 430 degrees Celsius and drop to -180 degrees Celsius at night.

One day-night cycle on Mercury takes 175.97 Earth days and a year of Mercury is just 88 Earth days. 

Standing on Mercury's surface at its closest approach to the Sun, our star would appear more than three times larger than it does on Earth.

The two spacecraft of ESA-JAXA's BepiColombo are en route to Mercury. NASA's Mariner 10 was the first mission to explore Mercury. NASA's MESSENGER was the first to orbit the innermost planet.

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