SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Mercury is the planet that orbits the closest to the Sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. On average, it is a little more than one-third the distance from the sun than Earth is. Or, put another way, Earth is almost three times farther from the sun than Mercury. Mercury orbits the sun once every 88 Earth days.

Detailed explanation-3: -Kid-Friendly Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun and Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. Even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. Its thick atmosphere is full of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and it has clouds of sulfuric acid.

Detailed explanation-4: -The nearest planet to the Earth is Mercury. For a long time, Venus was thought to be the closest planet to Earth.

Detailed explanation-5: -It considers the distance between two planets to be the average distance between all points along their respective orbits. Thus, Mercury’s orbit doesn’t take it very far from the sun, but Venus gets much farther away from Earth during its orbit. While it gets closer on occasion, it can be as far away as 1.72 AU.