These are facts about the first planet in our solar system.

if you weigh 100 lbs, your weigh on mercury would be 38 lbs.

mercury is often identifed with hermes who is the messenger of the gods in roman mythology.

mercury has no atmosphere, instead it has a exosphere which is made of atoms blasted of the surface by solar winds.

the temperature heats up to 750 degrees fahrenheit or 399 degrees celsius and it goes down to -300 degrees or -184 degrees celsius.

it is made out of 70% metallic and 30% silicate material. mercury has a radius of 2,439 km or 1,515 miles.

its mass is 5.5% of earth's mass. it has ice at its north and south poles inside deep craters that are perpetually cold. mercury goes through phases like our moon does. it rotates once every 59 earth days.