Mercury Model

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 269.6 Hz, 52 cents sharp of C4, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

Tap it to spin it fast in the sunlight.

Mercury is the smallest planet and the closest to the Sun, a gray rocky world covered in craters, a little bigger than our Moon. It races around the Sun once every 88 days.

Tap it and it spins once, fast, while the side facing the Sun glows red-hot and shimmers, then cools. The real Mercury turns slowly, and it has almost no air to hold heat, so its day side gets hot enough to melt lead, about 430 degrees Celsius, while its night side drops to about minus 180 degrees.

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.