Closer to the Sun, Why Mercury Not hot as Venus? | Online Poker | Online Poker Gambling
[ 30-11-2016 ]

Closer to the Sun, Why Mercury Not hot as Venus? | Online Poker | Online Poker Gambling

TA888 - Mercury is the closest online poker planet to the sun. However, Mercury is not the hottest online poker planet in our solar system. Why?

Orbiting between 46 and 70 million kilometers from the Sun, Mercury, the smallest online poker planet too, felt the greatest impact of sunlight. According to NASA, a small planet was experiencing the most extreme temperature range of other planets in the solar system.

During the day, the planet reaches temperatures up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit (427 degrees Celsius). Otherwise, at night, Mercury temperatures is minus 290 F (minus 180 C). This planet has an average temperature 332 F (167 C).

This variation is relatively long, so scientists thought that Mercury has one side that is constantly facing the sun. Because this planet is so close to the sun, Mercury only can be observed when showing the face of a rocky crater similar to Earth.

However, further research reveals that the planet rotates very slowly - only three times every two Mercury years, or once every 60 Earth days.

Low mass and a location close to the sun makes Mercury has the thinnest atmosphere, and this is the reason Mercury is not the hottest planet. The atmosphere helps protect the planet, keep the heat is not leaking into space. Without the atmosphere, Mercury's losing a lot of heat into space, and not sharing the heat when the night comes.

The hottest planet is Venus, the second planet nearest to the sun. Venus has a thick atmosphere that surrounds all around the planet, keeping the average temperature at 864 F (462 C).

On Earth, seasonal temperature shifts caused by the planet's axial tilt. If the southern hemisphere is closer to the sun than the Northern Hemisphere, the Earth experienced spring and summer, not autumn and winter. But Mercury isn't have planet axial tilt, which it means that there is no significant online poker gambling difference in temperature of one another.

It allows Mercury to keep ice on the online poker gambling surface. Part of the poles never saw sunlight, making scientists hypothesize the ice could survive there.

However, Mercury has the most eccentric orbit of all the online poker gambling planets. The large range in distance from the sun causing the planet to feel some variations in temperature based on the course for a year orbit, which lasts for 88 Earth days.