1 / 7

Mercury

Mercury. By: deonta brown. How Mercury got its name .

stevie
Download Presentation

Mercury

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Mercury By: deonta brown

  2. How Mercury got its name • Like all the planets, Mercury is named after one of the Roman gods, which were based on the gods worshipped by the Ancient Greeks. The Roman god Mercury was the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter in Roman mythology, and most of his aspects were based on the Greek god Hermes.

  3. What mercury made of • . Mercury has a large core of liquid metal surrounded by a mantle of silica and a solid outer crust. In the case of Mercury, though, the core accounts for 42% of the planet

  4. Mercury surface • The planet Mercury looks a little bit like Earth's moon. Like our Moon, Mercury’s surface is covered with craters caused by space rock impacts

  5. Size and temperature of mercury • Mercury facing the Sun can reach 700 Kelvin, or 426 degrees Celsius. the side facing away from the Sun – covered in shadow – dips down to 100 Kelvin, or -173 degrees CelsiusMercury's diameter is 4879 km

More Related