The U.S. Department of Justice administers two statistical programs to measure the magnitude, nature, and impact of crime in the Nation: the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
Why is the element mercury important? The element mercury is important because it has a color of silver, it has the properties of a solid and a liquid, it is a naturally found element, and it doesn't break down.
Small, rocky, close to the sun, few moons, no rings. The reason that Mercury looks a lot like our Earth's Moon is because. neither one has an atmosphere to (1) protect it from meteor impacts (most meteors burn up in an atmosphere, when one is present), or to (2) produce erosion that erases the evidence of past craters.