At a mere 3032 miles across (diameter), Mercury is now the smallest of the planets due to the planet Pluto being demoted to a "dwarfplanet".
Assuming Mercury is a sphere,its surface area,in square miles,is easily calculated from its radius of 1516 miles.The formula is 4 times"pi" times theradius squared. Using 3.14159 as the value for "pi":
the surface area ofMercury is 4 x 3.14159 x 1516 x 1516 square miles.
That's about 28,880,710 square miles.
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Mercury's diameter is 4879 km or 3,032 miles.
Mercury's diameter is 4879 km or 3,032 miles.
The surface area of Mercury is approximately 74.8 million square kilometers.
Neptune has a surface area of about 7.64 billion square miles.
Mercury is the planet that is one quarter the size of Earth and has no moons. It is the smallest planet in our solar system and is the closest planet to the Sun.