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1. solarsystem.nasa.gov › planets › mercuryIn Depth | Mercury – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   The smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun, Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. From the surface of Mercury, the Sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from Earth, and the sunlight would be as much as seven times brighter.

2. solarsystem.nasa.gov › module › 8810 Need-to-Know Things About Mercury - NASA Solar System...

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   Mercury is the fastest planet in our solar system – traveling through space at nearly 29 miles (47 kilometers) per second. The closer a planet is to the Sun, the faster it travels. Since Mercury is the fastest planet and has the shortest distance to travel around the Sun, it has the shortest year of all the planets in our solar system – 88 ...

3. solarsystem.nasa.gov › planets › in-depthWhat is a Planet? | Planets – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   It is unlike the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars), or the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn), or the ice giants (Uranus, Neptune). Charon, its huge satellite, is nearly half the size of Pluto and shares Pluto's orbit.

4. solarsystem.nasa.gov › solar-system › our-solar-systemIn Depth | Our Solar System - NASA Solar System Exploration

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   Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.

5. solarsystem.nasa.gov › mercury-by-the-numbersMercury By the Numbers – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   Oct 24, 2024 · Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and the smallest planet in our solar system - only slightly larger than Earth's Moon.

6. solarsystem.nasa.gov › planets › venusIn Depth | Venus – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   At its nearest to Earth, Venus is some 38 million miles (about 61 million kilometers) distant. But most of the time the two planets are farther apart; Mercury, the innermost planet, actually spends more time in Earth’s proximity than Venus. One more trick of perspective: how Venus looks through binoculars or a telescope.

7. solarsystem.nasa.gov › planets › dwarf-planetsIn Depth | Pluto – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   Dwarf planet Pluto is a member of a group of objects that orbit in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. This distant realm is populated with thousands of miniature icy worlds, which formed early in the history of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.

8. solarsystem.nasa.gov › mercury-by-the-numbersMercury By the Numbers – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   May 16, 2024 · Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and the smallest planet in our solar system - only slightly larger than Earth's Moon.

9. solarsystem.nasa.gov › planets › earthIn Depth | Earth – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   Our home planet is the third planet from the Sun, and the only place we know of so far that’s inhabited by living things. While Earth is only the fifth largest planet in the solar system, it is the only world in our solar system with liquid water on the surface.

10. solarsystem.nasa.gov › missions › cassini-hdsTitan | Science – NASA Solar System Exploration

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    Oct 24, 2024 · The colorful globe of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings in this true color snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Overview: Until the Cassini mission, little was known about Saturn’s largest moon Titan, save that it was a Mercury-sized world whose surface was veiled beneath a thick, nitrogen-rich ...