Solar System’s Smallest Planet Looks Like Shining Diamond in NASA Photograph

A stunning image of Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system was recently shared by NASA. In this picture Mercury looks like a shining diamond.

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, yet it is not the hottest planet in our solar system.

”They call me Mister Fahrenheit (Celsius)…While Mercury may be the smallest planet, it is also the speediest, traveling in its orbit at almost 29 miles (47 km) per second, making a year on Mercury just 88 Earth days,” NASA wrote while sharing the image.

In the picture, Mercury appears tan and several shades of blue, and several craters are seen on its surface.

This image of was captured by MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to ever orbit the planet. It collected colour-enhanced maps to distinguish chemical, mineralogical, and physical differences in rocks on the planet’s surface.