The Planet Mercury Song | Planet Songs for Children | Mercury Song for Kids | Silly School Songs

Learn all about the planet Mercury with this fun planet song for kids. For more information and music, visit http://sillyschoolsongs.com Lyrics: Let me tell you a little somethin' about Mercury In the order of the planets it's the first, you see It's the closest planet to the big fat Sun And I still can't believe it's not the hottest one Let me tell you a little somethin' about Mercury It's also called the Planet of Extremes With days so hot and nights so cold It can't be home to a living soul! This planet has a place in space 36 million miles away (from the Sun) The smallest planet in the solar system but you won't believe how much it weighs (3.8 sextillion tons) With no moon in the sky at night and nothing to give it some light (it's so, so dark) Not only dark but extremely cold it's 330 degrees below (that's negative temp!) Let me tell you a little somethin' about Mercury It's made of iron and heavy things Its atmosphere is extremely thin No human could possibly breathe it in Let me tell you a little somethin' about Mercury It's terrestrial and real rocky It takes 59 days to rotate or spin Its atmosphere is made of oxygen and sodium and hydrogren and helium and potassium We've tried to learn more about Mercury so we sent some space probes out there (two so far) Mariner 10 showed us its craters and we sent MESSENGER nearly 30 years later (see what we did right there) It doesn't have an atmospheric shield to protect it from solar rays (from the Sun) This also means it has some freezing nights and some amazingly excessive hot days (800 degrees!) Let me tell you a little somethin' about Mercury It was named for a Roman deity He had wings on his helmet and his shoes He's an ancient mailman messenger dude Let me tell you a little somethin' about Mercury In the order of the planets it's the first, you see It's the closest planet to the big fat Sun And I STILL can't believe it's not the hottest one! Copyright 2016 Silly School Songs. All Rights Reserved. Photo Credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brianglanz/424628190 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GregRobson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pumbaa80 http://www.nasa.gov/