Mercury slideshow-grades 2-4

1. Welcome to Mercury

2. Q. What do you know about
Mercury?

3. Solar System

4. Mercury is the
smallest planet

5. Mercury can only been
before sunrise or sunset

6. Mercury has lots of holes
and craters

7. Mercury has very little or no
atmosphere

8. The Romans
named the
planet after
Mercury, a
messenger for
the Roman
Gods.

10. Rotation VS Revolution
1 Rotation = 1 Day 1 Revolution= 1 Year

11. How long is a day on
Mercury?
It takes Mercury 59
days to rotate
once. That means
that 1 day on
Mercury = to 59
Earth days

12. One full rotation on the axis

13. How long is 1 year on
Mercury?
• It takes Mercury 88 days to
revolve around the sun

14. Q. What’s inside
Mercury?

16. Fast Facts
• Mercury is the closest planet to the sun
• It’s about the same size as Earth’s moon
• It has very little atmosphere and gets very hot and
very cold
• It has no moons
• 1 day on Mercury= 59 Earth days
• 1 year on Mercury = 88 Earth days