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Mercury the Sunshine Planet

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Mercury is the smallest among the planets of our solar system. Its diameter is only about 2/5 of that of the Earth, about 4880 km. Even some moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Ganymede and Titan, are bigger. Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun and named after the roman God of dealers and thieves.

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Benkhoff, J. (2015). Mercury the Sunshine Planet. In: Badescu, V., Zacny, K. (eds) Inner Solar System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19569-8_3

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