SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Essentially because Mercury is closest to the Sun, when taking an average over time, Mercury is most often the closest planet to the Earth, and-in that measure-it is the closest planet to each of the other planets in the Solar System.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first planet from the Sun is Mercury, orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 57.91 million km. It’s also the smallest planet in the Solar System, measuring just 4, 879 kilometers across. Mercury is named after the Roman god of commerce; he was the same entity as the Greek god Hermes – the messenger of the gods.

Detailed explanation-3: -MERCURY-It is the 1st planet from the Sun and is about 36 million miles away from it.-One day on Mercury takes about 59 Earth days.-It is the smallest planet in our solar system and is a rocky planet that has a solid, cratered surface that looks like Earth’s Moon.

Detailed explanation-4: -In order of distance from the sun they are; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto, which until recently was considered to be the farthest planet, is now classified as a dwarf planet. Additional dwarf planets have been discovered farther from the Sun than Pluto.