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    Mercury is the smallest planet, with a density 0.984 times Earth's and gravity 37.7% of Earth's. It has cliffs hundreds of meters tall and temperatures ranging from -183°C in shadow to 427°C in sunlight. Venus has an atmosphere 100 times denser than Earth's composed mostly of carbon dioxide and a surface temperature of 464°C. Mars has a thin atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide, a day length similar to Earth, and the largest volcano in the solar system called Olympus Mons.

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    Mercury is the smallest planet, with a density 0.984 times Earth's and gravity 37.7% of Earth's. It has cliffs hundreds of meters tall and temperatures ranging from -183°C in shadow to 427°C in sunlight. Venus has an atmosphere 100 times denser than Earth's composed mostly of carbon dioxide and a surface temperature of 464°C. Mars has a thin atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide, a day length similar to Earth, and the largest volcano in the solar system called Olympus Mons.

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    Mercury is the smallest planet, with a density 0.984 times Earth's and gravity 37.7% of Earth's. It has cliffs hundreds of meters tall and temperatures ranging from -183°C in shadow to 427°C in sunlight. Venus has an atmosphere 100 times denser than Earth's composed mostly of carbon dioxide and a surface temperature of 464°C. Mars has a thin atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide, a day length similar to Earth, and the largest volcano in the solar system called Olympus Mons.

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    Mercury is the smallest planet, with a density 0.984 times Earth's and gravity 37.7% of Earth's. It has cliffs hundreds of meters tall and temperatures ranging from -183°C in shadow to 427°C in sunlight. Venus has an atmosphere 100 times denser than Earth's composed mostly of carbon dioxide and a surface temperature of 464°C. Mars has a thin atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide, a day length similar to Earth, and the largest volcano in the solar system called Olympus Mons.

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    Mercury Smallest planet


    Density is 0.984 times ours
    Gravity 37.7% Earth.
    Exosphere Oxygen, Sodium, Hydrogen,
    Helium and Potassium (solar winds)
    Plasma in solar wind e-, H+,
    concentrated at poles by weak
    magnetic field
    Cliffs hundreds of metres long, mile
    high
    Planet has become smaller as it has
    cooled
    -183C facing away from the Sun to
    427C
    Orbit being 88 Earth day long, day
    58.6 Earth days sunsets once in 176
    rotations
    Venus less elliptical orbit
    properties similar earth
    It rotates retrograde
    winds 360 kilometres per hour vs 2/3
    atm density x 100, mostly CO2, 464C.

    Craters 1.5km wide


    SO2=volcanic activity, atmospheric
    lightening

    Earth Tilt=seasons, eliptical orbit, 68% land


    in northern hemisphere, further away
    in summer but heat easier (SHC)
    78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.93%
    Argon and 0.038% Carbon Dioxide
    troposphere
    tropopause, jet stream
    stratosphere, hole in the ozone layer
    Mesosphere, outer space
    Mars is 24 hours 37, 25
    half missions, Russian
    95.32% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen,
    1.6% argon, 0.13% oxygen, 0.03%
    water vapour and trace amounts of
    neon, krypton and xenon.
    pressure 0.6%
    winter the CO2 freeze, polar ice caps
    Dust devils (particles)

    Basalt, iron oxide


    Core used to be molten, billions of
    years ago, no techtonics
    Olympus Mons.
    deepest , Valles Marineris, 2 hotspots
    collapsed, 400km long and ranges
    from 2 to 7 km deep.

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