What's Unusual About Mercury?

A satellite image of a planet surface. One of the four craters is labeled, Kandinsky.

Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has ice at its poles. It also has a tail like a comet due to its exposure to solar winds. Learn other facts about this planet from information gathered by the Messenger spacecraft.

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  • What's Unusual About Mercury?

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    Video
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    Streaming
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    English Captions - Auditory, Spanish Captions - Auditory
    Languages:
    English, Spanish
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    Author:
    PBS Learning Media
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    2 minutes