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Earth, Mercury, and Earth's Moon compared

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: a-sys98-00040

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 22 cm

Mercury is a little larger than the Earth's Moon and is believed to be composed mostly of iron and rock, making it considerably denser than the Moon. Mercury also has a magnetic field about 1% as strong as the Earth's. Mercury's diameter is only one third that of the Earth's. It has only 6 percent the mass. If you weigh 180 pounds on the Earth, you would weigh 64 pounds on Mercury. Is only one-third the Earth's distance from the Sun

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ASTRONOMY - COMPARISON - EARTH - GLOBAL VIEW - ILLUSTRATION - MERCURY - MOON - PLANET - SATELLITE - SIZE - SOLAR SYSTEM -