What If You Spent 5 Seconds on Mercury?

Mercury is the closest and the smallest planet of our solar system, in terms of its revolution around the Sun it takes a mere 88 Earth days. Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has an extremely short day lasting only 176 Earth days in terms of its rotational period.

Lack of proper atmosphere makes its surface to experience extremely high temperatures during the day and drop to extremely low temperatures during the night due to the close proximity to the sun. Surface of Mercury is quite rugged and resembles the surface of the Moon containing large plains with high cliffs.

This rocky planet has a very weak exosphere consisting of oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, and potassium, but it does not possess much of an atmosphere, which enables it to generate heat.

Mercury is a small planet with a diameter of about 4,880 kilometers (3,032 miles) and a short orbiting time, which makes it an exceptional and fascinating object.

Mercury is a strange, hot mess of a planet. This rock is closest to the Sun, but its surface temperatures can plummet to as low as -180 °C (-290 °F). It has the strangest sunrises and sunsets in the entire Solar System. And one day on this planet lasts about two years. But you don’t have to survive a whole day down there. We’re sending our team member Chase on a mission to spend just 5 seconds on Mercury.