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Does mercury have seasons?

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Not as we know seasons. There is little tilt to Mercury's rotation, and the planet experiences the same temperature cycle year round. The planet's rotation and orbit mean that any location on the surface experiences 88 Earth days of blistering heat followed by 88 days of incredible cold. read more

Best Answer: Mercury's seasons -- if they can be called that -- are also remarkable. Until the 1960's it was thought that Mercury's "day" was the same length as its "year" keeping the same face to the Sun much as the Moon does to the Earth. This was shown to be incorrect by Doppler radar observations. read more

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