Mercury’s surface has three significant features – craters, plains, and cliffs.
Mercury is one of the five planets in the solar system that are visible to the naked eye.
Galileo Galilei observed Mercury for the first time in 1631.
The least circular and the most eccentric orbit in the solar system belong to Mercury.
The volume of the Mercury is 60,827,208,742 cubic km.
The mass of the Mercury planet is 330,104,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg.
The atmospheric constituents of Mercury are Nitrogen, Oxygen, and others.
Mariner 10 is the first spacecraft to visit Mercury and he made a stunning discovery.
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