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If you want to be extra and impress your friends or colleagues, you might even think to add that Mercury is the only planet in our solar system that’s shrinking; you heard me right!

One of the key issues scientists worry about when visiting other planets is radiation exposure. This has been a persistent worry for years because on Earth, we don’t face this issue; we are protected by the planet’s magnetosphere, which creates the Van Allen Belt.