Mercury

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun it is about 58 million km away during the day it reaches 450 degrees C. This is because of how close it is to the sun also because of it being close to the sun mercury spins faster than all the other planets. During the night it gets to minus 600 degrees. Earth is three times as far away from mercury.One day for mercury is 176 days on earth. It orbits the sun in an oval shape. It is 4,878 km wide at it's equator. a satellite was sent to mercury 6 or more years ago and has finally got there so we can see sides of mercury we haven't seen yet.