What it’s like to stand here
Mercury
- weight
- 0.38 g
- sun
- 2.6× wider
- sky
- warm white
Illustration computed from this world’s measured and derived values, not a photograph.
Rocky world
Mercury
What it's like to stand here
0.38 g
your weight (measured mass)
88 days
one year, in Earth time
2.6× wider
how big its sun looks vs ours
warm white
midday sky tint
2.7×
how high you could jump vs Earth
normal
day/night cycle (not tidally locked)
Where it is
Mercury is in our own solar system, so there’s no interstellar journey. It orbits about 0.39 AU from the Sun, so sunlight reaches it in roughly 3 minutes.
Size vs Earth
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Host star
Sun
G2V · 8 planets
Sibling worlds in this system
Nearby star systems
No neighbors computed.
Similar worlds (size · gravity · star)
No matches computed.
Zoom out: star → system → (soon) galaxy arm, host black hole, and a real image of the host galaxy.
Can you see it tonight? · observe
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Gear bridge
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Illustration generated from Mercury's confirmed parameters, not a photograph.