Posts Tagged “mercury”

Solar System Trading Card Game - Click Here to Play

221 played this game on Friday… we collected all 12 cards with no problem! So we moved on to something a bit more challenging…

Put the Planets in Order - Click Here to Play

If you want to make this game more challenging for yourself, try filling them in in reverse order, or from the middle out…

Hopefully we’ll be posting more solar system games soon!

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Although there is a lot of excitement about Mars right now, we are busy studying other planets too. This image is of the surface of Mercury.

Volcanism, Magnetic Core?

This image (from NASA/JPL) shows craters and ”spidery” volcanoes. Scientists also think Mercury has a magnetic field.

One reason to study other planets is to compare them to Earth. Mercury is like Earth in some ways, but very different in other ways. Some scientists think that it can show us what was going on on Earth a long time ago.

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