<p>Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet and the one closest to the Sun, is just slightly bigger than Earth's Moon.</p>
<p>The Most Up-to-Date Full Moon Calendar: January - February 2022<br />The Sun would look more than three times as huge from the surface of Mercury as it does from Earth, and sunlight would be up to seven times brighter - <strong><a href="https://www.daystarcom.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">view</a></strong> our website. Mercury, despite its close closeness to the Sun, is not the hottest planet in our solar system; that honor goes to Venus, which has a thick atmosphere.</p>
<p>The Sun seems to rise briefly, set, and rise again from certain portions of Mercury's surface due to its elliptical – egg-shaped – orbit and slow spin. At sunset, the same thing occurs, but in reverse.</p>
