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So little Mercury, sulfur-filled Venus, blue Earth, red Mars, giant Jupiter, ringed Jupiter, gray Uranus, and blue Neptune, and a host of dwarf planets, 174 moons, a mountain of dust, gas, and asteroids form the basis of the solar system. In this text, take a look at 7 amazing and strange facts about our space house.

The most bitter, nothing closer to Mercury in orbit around the Sun.

It is no secret that Mercury’s path is the closest to the Sun, so naturally and very logically, the conclusion is that it should be very hot. Since Mercury basically has no atmosphere to keep the planet from warming up and protect it from the cold at night, the fluctuations are really big. During the day on Mercury, the column of the thermometer rises to 427 degrees Celsius and at night it drops to minus 173 degrees Celsius. But in heat, the second planet in the solar system, Venus, which is 30 million miles further from the Sun than Mercury, surpasses the latter, although logic would say that it certainly cannot be.