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Mercury lost its crown, and isn’t our Solar System’s hottest planet

Mercury, as the closest planet to the Sun and the most absorptive planet in the Solar System, should be the hottest, too.

Maybe it was at one point.

But Venus is #1 now, by a lot.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/mercury-isnt-hottest-planet/

A view of the scale of the objects in our Solar System, showing the relative sizes of the planets and the Sun. The distances between the planets are not drawn to scale, however.
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@StartsWithABang Was AI used to write part of this? There are several tells I can’t seem to shake off, and a formal refutation would go a long way.
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