5 facts about Mercury
Mercury rotates 3 times on its axis for every 2 revolutions around the sun. Thus, a Mercurian would experience one day every 2 years.
There are craters named after famous figures in society. Some examples are, Bach, Beethoven, Disney, Hemingway, Lovecraft, Mark Twain, Michelangelo, Monet, Mozart, Poe, Rivera, Seuss, and Shakespeare.
In Hindu mythology, Budha is the personification of Mercury. He is the god of merchants.
Mercury has the largest fluctuation swing of temperature in the solar system. Daytime temperatures can go as high as 840 degrees Fahrenheit, but nighttime temperatures can dip as low as -275 degrees Fahrenheit.
If there were bugs on Mercury,the higher oxygen level would evolve them to be significantly larger than those on Earth. This occurred during the Paleozoic Era on Earth.