Mercury is a very hot planet—much closer to the sun than Earth. Despite this, many astronomers believed that Mercury had ice on its surface. The way that Mercury orbits the sun leaves the poles of the planet untouched by the sun. In fact, craters at the northern and southern poles are always in the shade and very cold. They could be as cold as -300 degrees Fahrenheit (-185 degrees Celsius)! A probe named MESSENGER visited Mercury in 2012. Sure enough, the spacecraft observed patches of ice in the depths of craters. Do It!

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The poem “richard cory” by edwin arlington robinson explores how the theme of dissatisfaction and the mentality that “the grass is greener on the other side” affects all humans. which two lines in this excerpt reflect those themes?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

What element of dante's inferno shows the reader that he wants to expose corruption in the church? a. by placing many church leaders among the sinners in hell b. by changing his own personality to create the dante character c. by allowing virgil, a well-respected poet, to be his guide d. by setting his story in hell and following the biblical description of hell2b2t