Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Mercury Planet?

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Mercury is a planet filled with sulfur near the blazing sun when the planets are counted in the solar system, Mercury comes first. After that comes the orbits of Venus, Earth, and Mars. These four planets in the solar system are in solid form, they are also called inner planets. According to Roman myths, Mercury is the messenger of the gods, the Roman form of the Greek god Hermes, the god of trade, travel, and pilgrimage. It got the name of the messenger deity because the planet travels very fast in the sky, completing one of its revolutions in about 88 days. There is a light atmosphere on Mercury which is mainly made up of atoms from the solar wind. Mercury is very hot due to which these atoms fly into space. This is unlike Earth and Venus whose environment is permanent, Mercury's atmosphere keeps on being new. The data obtained from the mariner suggests that there is some volcanic activity on Mercury but some more data is needed to prove it. Surprisingly there is evidence of aquatic ice in the craters of Mercury's the North Pole. Evidence of this was also found from radar and there is no satellite of Mercury.

Questions Excerpt


1. Which is the actual color of planet Mercury?

A. Black

B. Lightest black

C. Lightest Brown

D. Dark gray

2. Which is true about the planet Mercury?

A. Mercury is the second densest planet

B. Mercury has wrinkles

C. Mercury has a molten core

D. All of above

3. Its orbit around the Sun takes only ____________ earth days.

A. 87.97 earth days

B. 77.97 earth days

C. 365.7 earth days

D. 88.00 earth days

4. The average orbital speed of the Mercury planet is.....

A. 36.472 km/s

B. 47.263 km/s

C. 47.362 km/s

D. 74.362 km/s

5. Mercury's surface gravity is 3.7 m/s2, which is the equivalent of what percent of Earth's gravity?

A. 50 percent

B. 38 percent

C. 48 percent

D. 58 percent

6. it was first observed through telescopes in the__________ century by astronomers.

A. Seventeenth century

B. Sixteenth century

C. Fourteenth century

D. Nineteenth century

7. Why is it difficult to send a spacecraft to the planet Mercury?

A. Because it is so close to the sun

B. Because it is so far

C. Because it is moving so fast

D. None of these

8. Which type of planet is Mercury?

A. Gas giant planet

B. Terrestrial planet

C. Dwarf planet

D. Water planet

9. Why does Mercury have such extremes in temperature?

A. It's day is so long

B. It is so close to the sun

C. It has little atmosphere

D. All of above

10. Around how big is Mercury's mass when compared to the mass of the Earth?

A. 0.5% of the Earth's mass

B. 7.5% of the Earth's mass

C. 5.5% of the Earth's mass

D. 3.5% of the Earth's mass

11. When did the MESSENGER land on Mercury?

A. 17 March 2011

B. 17 March 2019

C. 17 March 2017

D. 17 March 2012

12. What does GE mean in MESSENGER?

A. GEosynchronous

B. GEochemistry

C. GEography

D. GEology

 

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