How do the atmospheres of the Moon and Mercury compare?

A) Mercury's is much denser, like Venus, with much carbon dioxide.
B) They are about equal, each only 1% as dense as ours.
C) The cooler Moon retains a thicker nitrogen atmosphere.
D) As no spacecraft has yet landed there, no information exists about Mercury's.
E) Neither body has a permanent true atmosphere.


E

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