Astronomy: The planet Mercury

And now for the promised and not delivered astronomy. Seeing as there is nothing interesting happening as of current like a new supernova explosion or the discovery of an Earth-like planet, I will be giving a brief summary of a planet... Yay!

Mercury:

Mercury is the planet in the Solar-system that is closest to our sun. Of the eight currently recognised planets in our solar-system (RIP dear littlest Pluto) it is the smallest.
Mercury's year lasts 88 Earth days.
The planet is only visible in the twilight period at dawn and dusk, due to its angle in the sky caused by its proximity to the sun.
The name mercury comes from the Roman name for the Greek messenger god Hermes. The symbol for Mercury even comes from caduceus, the staff with two intertwined snakes on it.

To the left is the actual staff, and on the right is the symbol used for Mercury.

The temperature on Mercury is between about      -180°C to about 430°C, the range is so massive as the planet's atmosphere is extremely thin and therefore is not a very good insulator or storer of heat.


The first probe to ever get a close up examination of Mercury was the Mariner 10, this probe used Venus's gravity to reach Mercury.

For more information, Here is the wikipedia link to Mercury

And here is a little picture of the planet:

I will so survive and so will you...

In life, we all have those troubles, the unfair trial and punishments, the gut-wrenchingly long waits until we can get that which makes us happy, the massive load of work or say... biology studying sitting in front of you that refuses to write itself out...

But at the same, we are all still here (or I presume you are if you are reading this), so how come? Well, we all have our coping methods, whether it be eating, friends or hitting our heads against walls until the lovely red elixir of life does cometh out in pools and pools, okay, hopefully not the last one, but you get the point.
Now these coping methods can sometimes be rather unhealthy and often they are just not enough, and that is where the second thing getting us through comes into play: The future.

You know that someday your punishment will be over, that that interminably long and hard wait will eventually terminate, that that massive load of work can be done. Were it not for the knowledge of the future, many would lose hope and crawl in a whole somewhere or just go completely and totally mental and start stealing peoples' shoes with no fear of repercussions...

So look forward my fellow Earthlings, the sky will still be there in the morning, no matter how grey there will still be a sliver of light. Every cloud has its silver lining, so go out there and find the silver lining on yours!