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Mercury is a small planet. (1)______, it is only slightly larger than our moon. Our moon has a diameter of 3, 475 kilometers, while Mercury has a diameter of 4, 879 kilometers. (2)______, our own planet Earth, is 12, 756 kilometers across. Mercury is (3)_______ the closest planet to the sun, about 56 million kilometers, and, (4)_______, temperatures on the planet can reach as high as 427 degrees Celsius during the day. Galileo was the first person to ever use a telescope to observe Mercury in the 17th century; (5)_______, scientist have since studied the planet much less than the other planets of our solar system. However, a space probe visited Mercury in 1975, and another in 2008.​

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