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: -As you probably know, Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, orbiting at an average distance of 57.9 million km. So then, what planet gets closest to Mercury in orbit. The answer, of course is Venus, the 2nd closest planet to the Sun. Venus orbits at an average distance of 108.2 million km.

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: -So, Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. And then Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun, and Earth is the third closest planet to the Sun.

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.