What Mercury’s Unusual Orbit Reveals About the Sun

Mercury’s Unusual Orbit

As the closest planet to the Sun — and with the most oblong orbit in the solar system — Mercury orbits through a region where the Sun’s influence is changing dramatically. Two NASA researchers looked to Mercury to study how the Sun’s influence on planets changes throughout space. Here’s what they learned.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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