EPS SCI 9 (UCLA) Final Exam Prep With 100% Correct Answers 2025/2026

EPS SCI 9 (UCLA) Final Exam Prep With 100% Correct Answers 2025/2026 What is the rotation period of Mercury (sidereal day)? - answer-59 Earth days How long is one solar day on Mercury? - answer-176 Earth days What is orbital period of Mercury? - answer-88 Earth days What is partially molten and takes up 75% of the diameter of its planet? - answer-Mercury's core What planet is smaller than many moons in the SS? - answer-Mercury What is the range of topography on Mercury like? - answer-very small variety What planet has the most extreme temperatures in the SS? - answer-Mercury (800°F to -350°F) What planet has the most eccentric orbit in the SS (besides Pluto)? - answer-Mercury ___ Mercury day = ___ Mercury years - answer-1; 2 What is the spin orbit resonance of Mercury? - answer-3:2 What feature on Mercury points either towards or away from the Sun? - answer-Caloris Basin What is the Caloris Basin? - answer-a huge basin near the top of Mercury infilled with lavaWhat is the Renior Basin? - answer-a peak ring basin on Mercury that is larger than central peak craters What does it mean when there is a ring-in-ring crater over a complex crater? - answer-the impact was bigger What is the Tir Planitia? - answer-a smooth plain on Mercury due to volcanism