SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system. It’s a little bigger than Earth’s Moon. It is the closest planet to the Sun, but it’s actually not the hottest.

Detailed explanation-2: -Smallest Planet: Mercury The smallest planet in regards to both mass and volume is Mercury-at 4, 879 km across and 3.3010 x 1023 kg, this tiny world is nearly 20 times less massive than Earth, and its diameter is about 2½ times smaller.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mercury is bigger than Pluto, but it’s still considered the smallest planet because of Pluto’s designation as a dwarf planet. In 2006, the IAU determined Pluto did not meet the qualifications to be a planet because it doesn’t clear its orbital path like the other planets do.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mercury is much smaller than Venus, Mercury is about twice as close to the Sun as Venus, Mercury is much less reflective than Venus, and. Mercury has no atmosphere, while Venus has a very thick atmosphere.

Detailed explanation-5: -Planets are enormous astronomical bodies that are neither stars nor stellar remnants. The solar system is the gravitationally bound system that includes the Sun and its orbiting components. The size of mercury is the smallest among all the eight planets in the solar system. The radius of mercury is 2439.7 km. More items