How is planet Mercury able to survive so close to the Sun?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

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Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Where did Mercury get its name? What is a day on Mercury like? How is Mercury not the hottest planet in the Solar System? Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

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0:00.0	Come on, trusty narrator, is that the fastest you can go?
0:04.0	I'm going. I'm going!
0:06.0	Come on, I know you can go faster than that.
0:09.0	Yeah, I don't know about that.
0:11.0	Hey, smarty pants!
0:14.0	In case you're wondering, I'm up in space, again,
0:18.0	trying to keep pace with the fastest planet in our solar system, Mercury.
0:22.6	Come on, why are you standing still?
0:24.6	Um, can we take a little break here?
0:27.6	A break, trustee, I've been doing this for four and a half billion years.
0:30.6	Surely you can jog around for a few hours.
0:32.6	Okay, okay.
0:34.6	Just let me catch my breath and pose some intriguing questions about Mercury for the smarty pants to ponder.
0:41.5	Like, what makes Mercury go so fast?
0:46.2	Why is the closest planet to the sun so cold?
0:51.3	And how is the first planet in our solar system connected to William Shakespeare, Maya Angelou, Walt Disney, and Dr. Seuss?
0:59.8	I am indeed a cat, and this indeed is a hat.
1:06.8	Oh, the places you'll go, trusty narrator, if you would just go faster!
1:12.8	I'm going! I'm going!
1:16.0	It's time for another whiff of science and history on...
1:20.9	Who smarted?
1:23.7	Who's smarted?
	...

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