{"id":75630,"date":"2019-06-03T02:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T02:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=75630"},"modified":"2019-06-03T02:05:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T02:05:47","slug":"mercury-has-massive-inner-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/mercury-has-massive-inner-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury has massive inner core"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statement regarding mercury?<br> (1) It is the smallest planet in the solar system<br> (2) Mercury has a massive solid inner core<br> Choose the correct statement\/s:<br> (a) Only(1)<br> (b) Only(2)<br> (c) Both (1) and (2)<br> (d) Neither (1) nor(2)<br> Answer :(c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) revealed that Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system has a massive solid inner core.<\/li><li>The final trip around Mercury before crash-landing in 2015 NASA\u2019s MESSENGER orbited Mercury for around 2011 to 2015.<\/li><li>According to NASA\u2019s information, both Mercury and the Earth have metallic cores and like Earth, Mercury\u2019s outer core is of liquid metal.<\/li><li>Mercury\u2019s innermost core which is nearly 85% of Mercury\u2019s volume is solid and it is nearly of the same size as Earth\u2019s inner core.<\/li><li>The new mission is on its way to Mercury. It is termed BepiColombo and is a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to explore Mercury from 2 unique vantage points.<\/li><li>BepiColombo is Europe\u2019s 1st mission to Mercury. It was set off in 2018 and on arriving at Mercury in 2025; it will experience temperatures more than 350\u00b0C.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About Mercury:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and is also the smallest planet in the solar system.<\/li><li>It takes Mercury 59 Earth days for rotation and 88 Earth days for revolution.<\/li><li>MESSENGER (March 18, 2011) was the second mission after Mariner 10\u2019s 1975 flyby to reach Mercury.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/mercury-has-massive-solid-inner-core\">https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/mercury-has-massive-solid-inner-core<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/news\/908\/discovery-alert-a-closer-look-at-mercurys-spin-and-gravity-reveals-the-planets-inner-solid-core\/\">https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/news\/908\/discovery-alert-a-closer-look-at-mercurys-spin-and-gravity-reveals-the-planets-inner-solid-core\/<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MESSENGER\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MESSENGER<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/all-about-mercury\/en\/\">https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/all-about-mercury\/en\/<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/bepicolombo\/\">http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/bepicolombo\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BepiColombo\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BepiColombo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statement regarding mercury? (1) It is the smallest planet in the solar system (2) Mercury has a massive solid inner core Choose the correct statement\/s: (a) Only(1) (b) Only(2) (c) Both (1) and (2) (d) Neither (1) nor(2) Answer :(c) Related facts: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) revealed that Mercury, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":75631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-75630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}