The First Real Images Of Mercury - What We Found?

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  • čas přidán 29. 04. 2024
  • In this video, we'll be discussing the first real images of Mercury, what we found and what implications it has.
    Ever since the Mariner 10 probe flew by Mercury in 1974, we've been looking at the planet's surface. But until now, we've only had a few blurry images. This new set of pictures, taken by the MESSENGER probe, is the first real images of Mercury's surface.
    We'll be discussing the implications of these new images, and what they could mean for the future of space exploration. Tune in to find out what we found!

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  • @sherriec5258
    @sherriec5258 Před 10 měsíci +276

    Mercury looks more like a moon.

    • @brianfileman
      @brianfileman Před 10 měsíci +17

      @@soggybread1577
      Pluto is half the size of Mercury.

    • @dapdne4916
      @dapdne4916 Před 10 měsíci +20

      😅Pluto. Hmm. I was about to joke to be careful not to talk that Mercury doesn't seem to "rank" as a planet. That is, some astro physicist might decide it NOT Really a planet like happened to PLUTO.

    • @monkeyhaters9258
      @monkeyhaters9258 Před 10 měsíci +21

      I think it looks like Uranus...?

    • @michaelmiller4154
      @michaelmiller4154 Před 10 měsíci +24

      It could’ve been venus’s moon

    • @kirkyearwood4350
      @kirkyearwood4350 Před 10 měsíci +4

      ​@@brianfilemanalso arounf the same same as Titan and Ganymede, so yeah, can be

  • @Togwag
    @Togwag Před 10 měsíci +117

    What a fascinating and well presented video, straight into facts and figures without any preamble. Thoroughly enjoyed listening to your voice explaining it in such an easy way to understand. Great visuals too. Thanks for sharing 😊

  • @Soufriere84
    @Soufriere84 Před 10 měsíci +49

    Nice video with a lot of information I didn't know about Mercury.
    Also appreciate the use of both Traditional and Metric units for us non-STEM Americans who don't use SI all the time.

  • @colinleat8309
    @colinleat8309 Před 10 měsíci +101

    It's interesting how little we've known about Mercury because of its position in the Solar system. I've learned alot from this video. Thanks 👍

    • @f87115
      @f87115 Před 8 měsíci +1

      We know absolutely nothing about it , these are all artist renditions , meaning their perception 😂😂 keep wishing

    • @Kawamura2
      @Kawamura2 Před 5 měsíci

      @@f87115 I know this is 2 months old, but I have to say: Someone didn't watch the video. If you had, you'd know that we had satellites scanning it, giving us all kinds of information on it. Artist's renditions are just there to help the average person visualize certain concepts, but some of those images are actual pictures. If you want to play idiocracy, that's your business.

    • @CaptainCap39
      @CaptainCap39 Před 4 dny

      @@f87115old comment im replying back to but you sound slow, we have satellites out there scanning it

  • @latonyanewsome0
    @latonyanewsome0 Před 10 měsíci +24

    So the years are shorter but the days are longer. That's very fascinating!

    • @Smo1k
      @Smo1k Před 9 měsíci

      A Mercury year is to the tune of a (Mercury) day and a half long. A Uranus day and - year are more or less the same, since Uranus has the same pole pointed at the sun at all times. How do you count days with now dawn?

    • @tharunnamboothiri
      @tharunnamboothiri Před 4 hodinami

      I thought it was the opposite. One mercury day equals fifty nine earth days!

  • @JeffreyFlynt
    @JeffreyFlynt Před 8 měsíci +10

    Am I thinking about this correctly? At about 1:40 minutes in it talks about how slowly Mercury rotates saying one day on Earth would 59 days on Mercury. Shouldn't that be the other way around? I'm thinking it means one Mercury day is about 59 Earth days.

  • @seantuohy6938
    @seantuohy6938 Před 10 měsíci +31

    At about 1:37, you said, "One day on Earth would be 59 days on Mercury." I think you meant to say, "One day on Mercury is 59 Earth days long.", right?

    • @psycatnip
      @psycatnip Před 9 měsíci +4

      Nope, he got it right. Mercury has about 1.5 days per year - it goes around the sun fast but has a slow personal rotation.

    • @seantuohy6938
      @seantuohy6938 Před 9 měsíci +5

      @@psycatnip Sorry to disagree, but it was stated wrong. During the course of 1 day on earth, Mercury does not see 59 days. Mercury sees a small fraction of a day during the course of 1 earth day.

    • @ahartley3529
      @ahartley3529 Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@psycatnip No. It was a reversal of fact by the narrator, as seantuohy suggested. One day on Mercury is equal to 59 Earth days. Which means a Mercury year is equal to one and a half Mercury days, roughly, or about 90 Earth days.

    • @Ridgyed
      @Ridgyed Před 8 měsíci +6

      Yes, he reversed the figures, because one Mercury day is so slow, that, by the time it finishes one spin, Earth would have spun and spun and spun 59 times.

    • @fudgi84
      @fudgi84 Před 7 měsíci +2

      hah, that was the first thing i came to see in the comments, after i saw that part

  • @Mr05Chuck
    @Mr05Chuck Před 8 měsíci +48

    Amazing what we could do 50 years ago in space considering the technology we had then.

    • @Vaportrail56
      @Vaportrail56 Před 8 měsíci +12

      Yep, too bad they lost the data on how to go back to the moon, wink wink

    • @boulderingbadger6179
      @boulderingbadger6179 Před 8 měsíci

      @@Vaportrail56 and too bad they winged everything as they went to make it work and did not note changes down in the plans, so we cannot rebuild or recreate what they made.

    • @jburton413
      @jburton413 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Tinfoil hat and blanket anyone? 🤷‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 😂

    • @niemand7811
      @niemand7811 Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@Vaportrail56 We still know how to get to the moon. And since they discovered "water containing resources" they plan on going to the moon again.

    • @mastichka
      @mastichka Před 8 měsíci +9

      When the worldwide priority is making money progress gets on hold

  • @cubic-h6041
    @cubic-h6041 Před 8 měsíci +38

    Thanks for using the word "may" and "probably" in your explanations. I appreciate you reminding us that we didn't see what happened so we are making hypotheses that could explain what happened.

    • @sihop9220
      @sihop9220 Před 8 měsíci +2

      But he still uses the term "impact craters" like theres only one way craters can be formed, ignoring electrical science that proves craters can be formed via electrical discharge: particularly those hexagonal shaped craters with a pyramid type formation at the center.

    • @cubic-h6041
      @cubic-h6041 Před 8 měsíci +5

      @@sihop9220 yeah, those craters look like some spot welds I've seen, not to mention that mercury is relatively small compared to solar flares, so large voltages could actually cause much of the patterns you see with the surface. Also, electrical forces are 10^32 times more powerful than gravity...so we probably shouldn't ignore it. I will take what I can get on this but yeah "probably impact craters" would be better. I've had to aggressively teach my kids that much of what science says as "fact" is really based on "assumptions". some are better assumptions than others. but until we verify the assumptions as universal in time and space, we don't really know for sure.

    • @peteabrh-fairest9463
      @peteabrh-fairest9463 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Flerfs😂

    • @eltoppdog
      @eltoppdog Před 7 měsíci

      That's called "Science".
      Look up "The Scientific Method".

  • @joshuajackson6442
    @joshuajackson6442 Před 8 měsíci +24

    Thank you so very much. I really love the way that you present the science and break it down into manageable and understandable concepts. I love astronomy wanted to be an astronaut when I was younger, but yeah having an air problem so can’t do that and your voice is so relaxing. Thank you so much for taking the time to research this and share it with the rest of us. Big hugs and have an awesome day.

  • @KAZVorpal
    @KAZVorpal Před 8 měsíci +3

    That orbital model was deceptive. It greatly exaggerates the oval.

  • @peteabrh-fairest9463
    @peteabrh-fairest9463 Před 8 měsíci +7

    Mercury is basically a big ball of iron with a thin veneer of rock.
    The remnants of what was once a much larger planet, until a huge impact took most of the crust away.
    An absolutely fantastically presented documentary....

    • @generalg.b.mcclellan3079
      @generalg.b.mcclellan3079 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Yes. And that larger planet with greater mass, must have orbited further away from the Sun. Leaving behind a large debris field - the asteroid belt.

  • @EdwardJosephShields-ux2vu
    @EdwardJosephShields-ux2vu Před 8 měsíci +5

    I think the narrator should have said that 1 day on Mercury is 59 days on earth. 😺

  • @adamhuffman3354
    @adamhuffman3354 Před 8 měsíci +8

    As a rock hound being in that dust ring collecting would be the highlight of my life! Goodness what things could be found!

    • @kwisclubta7175
      @kwisclubta7175 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Pretty sure if anyone visited Mercury and survived to tell about it, it would be the highlight of their life. What fucking difference does it make if you like to collect rocks? 🤣

  • @MontrealRides
    @MontrealRides Před 10 měsíci +18

    You lost me at protection from Supernova in the first minute. No, Mercury's magnetosphere would not protect itself from the Sun's supernova.

    • @Filthy_Larry
      @Filthy_Larry Před 10 měsíci +1

      Your moms basement is a good protection from the super nova.

    • @MontrealRides
      @MontrealRides Před 10 měsíci

      @@Filthy_Larry Ooohh... buuuurrn...
      Grow up.

    • @Filthy_Larry
      @Filthy_Larry Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@MontrealRides sorry. Your moms is the red giant. She stepped on the scale. This scares even Elon Musk.

    • @gregjohns5235
      @gregjohns5235 Před 10 měsíci +3

      I stopped watching when he said 59 days is 3 months.

    • @TheOJDrinker
      @TheOJDrinker Před 8 měsíci +1

      I don't think he meant the Sun itself going supernova, but it wasn't elaborated on and could be incorrect anyway... there were clearly some errors in the script.

  • @quietone748
    @quietone748 Před 8 měsíci +8

    Thank you for a really good video on this smallest planet. I've been fascinated by it but there has been so little information on it in the public's eye!

    • @glenchapman3899
      @glenchapman3899 Před 8 měsíci

      Well there has not been a lot of info to put out there

    • @seltaeb9691
      @seltaeb9691 Před 8 měsíci

      Read books! or if printed pages are too much for you, then just Google it or CZcams it, there's loads of info at a screen press. Rmbr Mercury is the Winged Messenger, say no more..

    • @seltaeb9691
      @seltaeb9691 Před 8 měsíci

      On a clear night sky, you will see Mercury & Venus. Mercury is very bright & not like a star that twinkles but has a lightbulb intensity albeit very far away! Same with Venus, all you need is your eyes 👀, look up & stop walking!

  • @thomassicard3733
    @thomassicard3733 Před 10 měsíci +13

    Extremely well produced video!! Thanks!

    • @roharbaconmoo
      @roharbaconmoo Před 10 měsíci +3

      Not really, mistakes all over the place

    • @dannistjana901
      @dannistjana901 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@roharbaconmoo Right?!! I'm only minute and 40 secs in, but: "one day on earth, would be 59 days on mercury".
      That guy must have showed up for opposite day and gotten the memo a day early ;D

  • @sarcomakaposi2054
    @sarcomakaposi2054 Před 6 měsíci +3

    What a superb and pleasant narrator voice. The video is very didactic and easy to understand for non scientists like me. Just fascinating. Thank you!

  • @nutier
    @nutier Před 8 měsíci +1

    Awesome video ! I love it so much . Thank you for sharing . The Mercury looks like as our moon . Happy week-end to you !

  • @the_trevoir
    @the_trevoir Před 6 měsíci +1

    Excellent production and narration. Very informative, thanks!

  • @wasabista1613
    @wasabista1613 Před 8 měsíci +8

    Excellent information, clearly and engagingly presented. And none of the cringy jokes that mar so many other science and history videos. Well done.👍

    • @barneymiller6204
      @barneymiller6204 Před 8 měsíci +2

      You mean jokes like "why don't they just go at night"?

    • @paulmurphy8549
      @paulmurphy8549 Před 8 měsíci +1

      AI ruining it.scripts are terrible. History of earth history of universe is by far the goat

    • @praisethesun69
      @praisethesun69 Před 8 měsíci +1

      I crashed on mercury but learned how to make youtube videos. I left a content crater.

  • @TheNameOfJesus
    @TheNameOfJesus Před 10 měsíci +7

    Whew. I thought I was mispronouncing Mercury, but I checked online, and I wasn't wrong. It's very ironic that you say "tempertyure" and you don't say "Mercyury."

    • @Soufriere84
      @Soufriere84 Před 10 měsíci +2

      We're so used to science being explained to us in an upper-class English accent, hearing the same things in a thick American accent -- and not a neutral one but a Southern one like mine -- feels "off".

  • @kevinpatrickburke
    @kevinpatrickburke Před 10 měsíci

    Amazing detail. TY for the up.

  • @heidi-mariadegruchy7641
    @heidi-mariadegruchy7641 Před 8 měsíci +1

    very informative and done without any unnecessary hype thank you!

  • @adamben-shimon7513
    @adamben-shimon7513 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Great video. I learned a lot about the planet. It looks a lot like the moon.

  • @AngelCatBaby
    @AngelCatBaby Před 10 měsíci +24

    Awesome info….Love astronomy and our solar system. How I wish I could have been a part of some of the scientific research and study of this and other things, it would have brightened my day, but it wasn’t meant to be. I’ve missed something special though and now I only get to see through the eyes of what others have accomplished within the work of the scientific field. This keeps us on our toes and helps to know that what we think we know is always changing and giving us new insights and into showing just how precious our plant Earth really is. HIGH 5….👍👍❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

    • @colinleat8309
      @colinleat8309 Před 10 měsíci +3

      I completely agree, and I feel exactly the same way you do! 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦

    • @NarenLumpkin
      @NarenLumpkin Před 8 měsíci +3

      Let your hope not be lost, I am a backyard astronomer and a city dweller. Though life once allowed me to gaze at the stars when I was 4-20 years old.❤❤❤ Life will give you the chance May we give life a chance.

    • @robertmanes9333
      @robertmanes9333 Před 7 měsíci

      It’s tedious work, i do applied physics and the amount of variables in astronomy is boggling sometimes

  • @marcob4630
    @marcob4630 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Thanks a lot for these precious informations - an astonishing work indeed!

  • @ansiaaa
    @ansiaaa Před 7 měsíci +2

    if it has such a slow rotation, wouldn't it be "1 day on mercury is 59 days on earth" ? instead what was said in the video "1 day on earth is 56 days on mercury" ?

  • @Jizzlewobbwtfcus
    @Jizzlewobbwtfcus Před 8 měsíci +10

    OK! I am VERY wary about science based channels when it comes to the subject of outer space bodies because soo many are either monotonous or have a REALLY bad narrator. I think a good narrator is what can sell a doc. So in saying that I must say that this channel is SUPERB! Only 2minutes in I was mesmerized!
    You got a new subber : ]

    • @Stringsmith
      @Stringsmith Před 8 měsíci +1

      Funny that you mention two minutes, the point at which the narrator says that 59 days is three months...

  • @davidgriffiths4142
    @davidgriffiths4142 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Fascinating stuff. Also, I didn't know the planet's name was pronounced murcurry.

    • @Mr.Plant_man
      @Mr.Plant_man Před 7 měsíci +1

      It's infuriating!

    • @no_step_on_snek9796
      @no_step_on_snek9796 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Mr.Plant_manit’s just a southern accent 😂. As a fellow southerner, northern or western accents are just as “infuriating” to us. We’re all “muricans” here.

  • @timmotel5804
    @timmotel5804 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Very interesting and very educational. Thank You

  • @kerrykrishna
    @kerrykrishna Před 8 měsíci

    The pictures of the actual Scientists are the coolest thing about this Vid!. I am subscribing! GREAT job!

  • @1974prash
    @1974prash Před 10 měsíci +4

    Amazing images of Mercury in 4K..please post images of other planets also including Moon.

    • @enigmalfidelity
      @enigmalfidelity Před 10 měsíci

      They will never give us the moon.
      Never

    • @davidelliott5843
      @davidelliott5843 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Find your own images. It’s what search engines are for.

    • @enigmalfidelity
      @enigmalfidelity Před 10 měsíci

      @@davidelliott5843 Probably easier to find than you're life.

    • @joachimb5721
      @joachimb5721 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Easier to find than you are life? What does that even mean?

  • @k9mouse
    @k9mouse Před 10 měsíci +4

    Great Video :)

  • @Dlweta57
    @Dlweta57 Před 10 měsíci

    Great vid, good grafics excellent narration, background music doesn't overpower the narro

  • @WaltC3
    @WaltC3 Před 8 měsíci

    I really like the presentation of this video--the soft edges of the distinctly well-enunciated, gently southern (US) narrator's accent was very pleasing, and lends itself well to masterfully conveying educational content--as opposed to the "Zeus is speaking from his throne on Mt. Olympus to dumb mortals" melodrama often used, today...;) Very refreshing! (A small, but important distinction, imo.) From the comments, I can see that others noticed it as well, and were also similarly impressed. Educators take heed. It stands out for me and others because it is a presentational style not commonly seen/used these days (unfortunately!). Or, maybe it's just that I watch too many CZcams video clips that purport to be "scientific"!...;)
    I noted only one very small but fairly major error in the entire presentation, and that is found in the beginning intro, where it is stated that Mercury's magnetic field is strong enough to deflect a supernova/e star flare...;) Uh, no...;) As noted in the entire presentation, some normally encountered solar-wind particles will be deflected by the field, but even the Earth's much stronger magnetic field would avail nothing in the event of a direct supernova flare hit from trusty old Sol! And in the event of such a supernova extinction event in our system, Mercury and possibly even Earth would be completely subsumed inside the expanding star itself in such a supernova. The damage would be terrific and permanent. Of course, since Mercury is a dead planet, it might emerge "unscathed" after the terminal flare subsides, but that has nothing to do with the magnetic field of Mercury! Hah, of course not. The statement in the intro was not repeated anywhere in the body of the video, hence it must have simply been a minor oversight.

  • @HollieMoodie
    @HollieMoodie Před 6 měsíci +6

    A lot of interesting information. I always thought of Mercury as just a rock like a moon or an asteroid more than a planet. I never knew there was so much more to it.

  • @ottoismy1dog
    @ottoismy1dog Před 10 měsíci +5

    Merc-a-ree, really ?

  • @elfpimp1
    @elfpimp1 Před 2 měsíci

    Growing up in the early 70's and 80's I always thought that we would discover more interesting things about the planets we first saw as Boring and uninteresting. And this video and others like it have vindicated those thoughts. I wish my teachers were alive to see these. Thank you for posting!

  • @IamNeighborlee
    @IamNeighborlee Před 8 měsíci

    Beautiful images and incredibly informative

  • @handbananaistherapist642
    @handbananaistherapist642 Před 8 měsíci +3

    I had always thought that Mercury would be rich in heavy elements such as Uranium and Gold.

    • @vladskiobi
      @vladskiobi Před 6 měsíci

      Why?

    • @handbananaistherapist642
      @handbananaistherapist642 Před 6 měsíci

      Seems that heavier elements would gravitate closer to the Sun during the greatest part of the accretion process.@@vladskiobi

  • @bstrachan8527
    @bstrachan8527 Před 6 měsíci +6

    Thanks for using Imperial units of measurement with metric equivalents for those who need or want them. I understand the benefits of the metric system but it's nice to see things dimensioned in miles. Good job!

    • @Whit-mh9nt
      @Whit-mh9nt Před 3 měsíci

      Most of the people on the planet (almost all) use METRIC.

  • @Jakob.Hamburg
    @Jakob.Hamburg Před 6 měsíci

    Nice Pictures and information. Thank you for sharing. : )

  • @WigFliper-xx3ol
    @WigFliper-xx3ol Před 2 měsíci

    THANK YOU FOR SHARING

  • @briandandurand5661
    @briandandurand5661 Před 10 měsíci +4

    Also of interest, quoting from the Wikipedia page on the planet Mercury: "Mercury orbits the Sun in a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance, meaning that relative to the background stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.[a][21] Counterintuitively, due to Mercury's slow rotation, an observer on the planet would see only one Mercurian solar day (176 Earth days) every two Mercurian solar years (88 Earth days each).[4]" [See the Wikipedia article for the citation references.]
    By contrast, Earth has a 24 hour solar day, but a full rotation of Earth relative to the background stars occurs in approximately 23 hours and 56 minutes.

    • @colinleat8309
      @colinleat8309 Před 10 měsíci

      Well done! Thanks for pointing that out 👍 🤘😁🖖🇨🇦

  • @betamaxrules
    @betamaxrules Před 10 měsíci +3

    Love the video!
    "MERK yury" not "MERK re". 3 syllables.

    • @rooster82471
      @rooster82471 Před 10 měsíci

      And temp ya ture. Instead of temperature

  • @aprillaywell3598
    @aprillaywell3598 Před 10 měsíci

    Thank you for sharing🎉🎉🎉

  • @evanpruitt-crawford6990
    @evanpruitt-crawford6990 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Really hoping, for this man’s views’ sake, that I’m the only one who initially can’t get over the way he /completely/ mispronounces “temperature” as “temp-you’re-ture”. ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY.

  • @mark11967AD
    @mark11967AD Před 7 měsíci +50

    So well done and all free. Thanks so much to all involved. 46% oxygen really surprised me along with water and ice at its poles. It’s hard to believe that a species could be so intelligent and capable yet so flawed and harmful to itself. But nonetheless good people endeavor to achieve good things for all humanity.

    • @johnmichaels4330
      @johnmichaels4330 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Wtf are you talking about? Are you trying to say an alien species was on mercury or are you using Google translate?

    • @danm2084
      @danm2084 Před 6 měsíci +4

      ​@johnmichaels4330 huh? "So well done and free" as in, this took a lot of time and work to make but we get to see it for free. The species he's referring to is us. Intelligent enough to explore space and create the things we create, but still we kill eachother every day and let people starve to death and suffer from greed and all that. I don't know why you think it's translated poorly. Maybe you just read it too fast and missed some words.

    • @johnmichaels4330
      @johnmichaels4330 Před 6 měsíci

      @danm2084 ok, seems like he is writing in checklist form instead of narrative. That's what threw me off.

    • @bighoss1860
      @bighoss1860 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@danm2084 The idea that conflict and progress aren't inextricably linked is wishful thinking. If we weren't killing each other then we wouldn't be in space either.

    • @danm2084
      @danm2084 Před 6 měsíci

      @bighoss1860 yeah its a very very complex topic.

  • @thezacek100
    @thezacek100 Před 8 měsíci +4

    I'm confused, if Mercury rotates very slowly, how can 1 day on earth equal 59 days on Mercury? I would think is the exact opposite.

    • @Tab54o
      @Tab54o Před 8 měsíci +1

      Thought the same thing, I think he just said it wrong. One day on Mercury is 59 earth days.

    • @dingobaby739
      @dingobaby739 Před 8 měsíci

      Ok, so imagine Mercury spinning around slowly and your friend has a stop watch, your friends on Earth, you watch Mercury spin and when the spot you first noticed comes around you know it's made a rotation....then you ask your friend "how long was that"...he hits the stop watch and says.." about 59 days."

  • @davidchapman6308
    @davidchapman6308 Před 6 měsíci

    Wonderful and informative presentation. Well done.

  • @jonathan45278
    @jonathan45278 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I'm thinking of going to Mercury for a holiday to work on my tan. Would you recommend sun lotion SPF 15+ ?

  • @android584
    @android584 Před 7 měsíci +3

    I'm wonder if mercury and Venus having very slow rotation (backwards in Venus's case) means that they themselves collided. Or if there were just lots of protoplanets and what we see today are the last ones standing.

    • @Flint-Dibble-the-Don
      @Flint-Dibble-the-Don Před 6 měsíci

      Planet X Dude. "Chariots of the Gods, man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know".

  • @eucliduschaumeau8813
    @eucliduschaumeau8813 Před 8 měsíci +6

    The "Hollows" at 19:34 appear to have enormous sand dunes in the small hollow between the two much larger, upper depressions. The dunes look like the part of one underlying alluvial plane. These would be created by liquid most likely, or by complex winds. Liquid would be my guess, which came down from a cut in the large depression on top of it.

  • @bartonsalling6720
    @bartonsalling6720 Před 5 měsíci

    Thankyou for such well presented information about a rare interesting topic. Barton Salling

  • @jaseastroboy9240
    @jaseastroboy9240 Před 8 měsíci

    So, looking at the dust ring that follows Mercury's orbital path. If that material was added to the surface of Mercury would the ratio of core material to mantle material be more in line with what is expected? Does the lower gravity of Mercury allow larger amounts of the material from a meteorite impact to escape and gather in the observed dust ring. Whereas other larger planets are able to return most of the ejected material back to their surface. So the larger core could just be due to a higher rate of meteoric erosion due to the planets small size and the dust ring be a byproduct of that high erosion rate?

  • @richardreffy4550
    @richardreffy4550 Před 10 měsíci +7

    I feel a bit sorry for Mercury tbh, it sounds like it's had a tough time

  • @malcolmabram2957
    @malcolmabram2957 Před 10 měsíci +22

    The aphelion of Mercury is never in the same position relative to the stars and moves slowly. Scientists could not explain this. However, when Einstein's time dilation equations were applied, it accounted for the movement of Mercury's orbit within 1% accuracy. It was the first significant proof of special relativity.

    • @annasdad8008
      @annasdad8008 Před 10 měsíci +5

      It isn’t the “time dilation” which corrected for Mercury’s orbital progression, it was the gravitational equations in General Relativity (not Special Relativity) which accounted for it.

    • @malcolmabram2957
      @malcolmabram2957 Před 10 měsíci +5

      @@annasdad8008 My understanding is that general relativity describes the curvature of space which increases with increase in gravitational field. At Mercury's perihelion it is closest to the Sun and will experience a higher gravitational force, whereby the space time is more warped (although strictly gravity is not a force in general relativity), and as such it moves faster. This means, that Mercury takes less time to travel a distance compared to a stationary observer in space (i.e. astronomers on Earth). As a result, following perihelion it emerges in a different position in space, compared to that when applying Newtonian mechanics. The equation that accounts for this change in position comes from the time dilation equation, as applied to distance, and such is special relativity.

    • @twinwankel
      @twinwankel Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@malcolmabram2957 Mercury's precession was one of ways that Einstein identified the right gravitational field equation. Every time he thought he found the right formulation, gave it to his PhD student to see if it predicted the precession right. After many failed attempts, he finally got a formula that worked. It has nothing to do with Special Relativity.

    • @scottcates
      @scottcates Před 8 měsíci +2

      Thanks to you guys for digging in a little deeper to this topic. I am surprised the video's authors did not mention this special fact about Mercury's orbit.

  • @jimmartin156
    @jimmartin156 Před 6 měsíci

    Utterly engaging. Enjoyed immensely.

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 Před 8 měsíci

    Why is there a square interlaced opening or projections in the center of the crater on the lower right side of 17:54?

  • @mguerra79
    @mguerra79 Před 10 měsíci +3

    I helped almost a couple of years ago my daughter with researching for a school assignment and I noticed, then, that the same thing was said without verification. If the planet rotates extremely slow, how the heck one day on Earth, faster then, equates to 59 (??) on Mercury? It should be the other way around, if the planet revolves slowly, 59 days on Earth are one on Mercury. Am I missing something here or people just copy and paste information without even considering a bit about it? Thank you!

    • @patk3601
      @patk3601 Před 10 měsíci

      That is incorrect. NASA's website says that the equivalent of 1 earth day on Mercury is 1408 hours or 88.5 days.

    • @mguerra79
      @mguerra79 Před 10 měsíci

      @@patk3601 can you provide a link, please? Thank you!

  • @DanielWatson-vv7cd
    @DanielWatson-vv7cd Před 8 měsíci +6

    Is it possible the crust on Mercury is littered with caves, or maybe rubble covered with dust? The lack of plate tectonics and meteor impacts probably cause such geology.
    And if so, could there be lifeforms in those cave systems?

    • @Lorenzo9214
      @Lorenzo9214 Před 3 měsíci

      Life, as we know it, is based on Carbon and in its most complex forms requires Oxygen. Anaerobic organisms also exist on Earth, but they are very simple organic forms, they are bacteria. Perhaps there is something similar on a burnt rock like Mercury, but I still have many reservations in thinking that there is something "alive"

  • @lauratroxel24
    @lauratroxel24 Před 7 měsíci

    I recently was gifted the picture called The Pale Blue Dot. Its so unbelievable that we are just that, in the bigger picture. Carl Sagan's words are so true.

  • @rolando819
    @rolando819 Před 10 měsíci +6

    Doesnt the dust ring mean Mercury hasn’t cleared it’s orbit? Isn’t that what made us downgrade Pluto to Dwarf Planet?

    • @ConcreteLand
      @ConcreteLand Před 10 měsíci +2

      I believe, but could be wrong, that it was Pluto’s size that caused it to be downgraded. There are to many objects in the Oort Cloud that are similar size to Pluto, which would mean they could all qualify as planets.

    • @jonathanbarnes3061
      @jonathanbarnes3061 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@ConcreteLand there could then potentially under newly reviewed and defined requirements one day be dozens of uncharted new planets one day?

    • @Filthy_Larry
      @Filthy_Larry Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@ConcreteLandno one has a right to classify Pluto as a dwarf.

    • @masoncomes6783
      @masoncomes6783 Před 10 měsíci

      I don't know this for sure but I suspect it would have to have a molten core to be considered a planet, hence why size comes into the equation; but composition and external forces would have to be accounted for making it difficult to tell

    • @TheOJDrinker
      @TheOJDrinker Před 8 měsíci +3

      Different sources cite different criteria, such as pluto and charon orbiting around a point above pluto's surface. Meanwhile mercury has no moons.

  • @santinamarie4699
    @santinamarie4699 Před 10 měsíci +7

    So much of this is theoretical it's interesting that you presented as a fact. We don't even know about the core of this planet. How could we possibly know about Mercury

    • @itzakehrenberg3449
      @itzakehrenberg3449 Před 8 měsíci +1

      I'm skeptical that we know much about the core of any planet, including Earth.

  • @monkeyhaters9258
    @monkeyhaters9258 Před 10 měsíci +2

    I love these videos do Uranus next...!!😊

  • @shanep5121
    @shanep5121 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Using standard measurements got my sub. Thank you.

  • @Curt_Randall
    @Curt_Randall Před 10 měsíci +3

    Mercury seems more like a stray moon without a planet.

    • @Filthy_Larry
      @Filthy_Larry Před 10 měsíci +4

      That’s racist.

    • @Curt_Randall
      @Curt_Randall Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@Filthy_Larry lol. Don't tell me you are astronomically woke.

    • @Filthy_Larry
      @Filthy_Larry Před 10 měsíci

      @@Curt_Randall no. You are. Calling Pluto a dwarf when Pluto can kick your ass!! I’m betting in Pluto. Pluto is bigger than your house.

    • @Curt_Randall
      @Curt_Randall Před 10 měsíci

      @@Filthy_Larry I can't believe this conversation is happening.

    • @Filthy_Larry
      @Filthy_Larry Před 10 měsíci

      @@Curt_Randall oh it happening bud. Pluto’s is a planet. I’ll fight everyone at NASA over this. I fight for planets rights.

  • @SaiaArt
    @SaiaArt Před 9 měsíci +3

    It's probably a captured rogue moon, or possibly the moon of Theia. But I did not know about the ring of dust. So if it's neighborhood has not been cleared, it may not qualify as a full fledged planet, similar to Pluto.

    • @vladskiobi
      @vladskiobi Před 6 měsíci

      "It's probably a captured rogue moon, or possibly the moon of Theia".
      Based on what? Don't say "probably" unless you have enough evidence to make it probable.

  • @irena-rute-rutzvinklevicie3636

    THANKFUL for rousing information video so for more knowing and knowlidge about our one of the planet's - MERCURY / Ruteren Iren.

  • @h.dejong2531
    @h.dejong2531 Před 6 měsíci +2

    No, MESSENGER did not create the first "real images" of Mercury. Mariner 10's photos were no less real than MESSENGER's, they just had a lower resolution.

  • @f87115
    @f87115 Před 8 měsíci +4

    The first real artist rendition of Mercury 😂

    • @joachimb5721
      @joachimb5721 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Huh? Lots of real photographs of Mercury in this video.

    • @f87115
      @f87115 Před 6 měsíci

      @@joachimb5721 you missed it ,, right over the head

  • @yourpathmatters
    @yourpathmatters Před 10 měsíci +8

    Mercury is such a fascinating planet. It seems breathing will be possible there someday, since there is already a significant oxygen level there.

    • @dasapples
      @dasapples Před 10 měsíci +9

      It’s significant compared to everything else in the atmosphere, but it’s still an extremely thin atmosphere. So probably not

    • @yungbfresh1
      @yungbfresh1 Před 10 měsíci

      Its a video full of CGI.

    • @dasapples
      @dasapples Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@yungbfresh1 no way! 😱

    • @rdelrosso2001
      @rdelrosso2001 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @rightpath:
      Um, Mercury can get up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit (F), so how do you propose to protect yourself from that Temperature?
      And at night the Temp plummets to minus 210 F, so bring a warm blanket and winter underwear, LOL!

    • @DruidPC
      @DruidPC Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@yungbfresh1 woah no way, you don't say.

  • @jovetj
    @jovetj Před 8 měsíci

    Really nice video! Thank you!

  • @johnfraser6399
    @johnfraser6399 Před 8 měsíci

    totally awesome vid. Thank you much. (:

  • @TyWhite
    @TyWhite Před 10 měsíci +3

    Dumb question - if Mercury exists in an orbital pathway that isn't completely cleared out, wouldn't that DQ it as a Planet and downgrade it to Minor Planet like Pluto?

    • @Filthy_Larry
      @Filthy_Larry Před 10 měsíci

      Pluto is a planet and I’ll fk anyone up at NASA over it. Who the fk are they to tell a mass rock wether they a planet or a dwarf?!!!! It ain’t right!!!! Planets can’t speak for themselves.

    • @grassfedcharlie
      @grassfedcharlie Před 10 měsíci +2

      There are too many object in the Oort Cloud similar in size to Pluto. Which would mean they would all qualify as planets

    • @dhaibhcuin
      @dhaibhcuin Před 8 měsíci

      Exactly the question I had.

    • @Thurgosh_OG
      @Thurgosh_OG Před 8 měsíci +1

      Pluto will always be a planet to me. Just because some late attendees at a science conference, where the majority of attendees had already left (including the most senior ones), doesn't get to change its status in my book.

    • @vladskiobi
      @vladskiobi Před 6 měsíci

      That would also disqualify Jupiter and Earth, both have co-orbital asteroids.
      And I don't think we're about to disqualify Jupiter and Earth.

  • @krob5375
    @krob5375 Před 8 měsíci +4

    It's hard to watch a scientific video being narrated by a guy who sounds like he doubles as a rodeo announcer lol "Merkery"😂

  • @Ettenyl56jioni
    @Ettenyl56jioni Před 8 měsíci

    What accounts for the equidistant striations observed on the surface of Mercury running down from the North to the South Pole that look like lines of longitude?

  • @susannadzejachok3230
    @susannadzejachok3230 Před 8 měsíci

    Well done video, thanks.

  • @paulorganisation1
    @paulorganisation1 Před 10 měsíci +4

    I think i forgot my charger the last time i visited Mercury.

    • @mr.nobody3248
      @mr.nobody3248 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Bro the same thing happened to me when I went to Venus

    • @paulorganisation1
      @paulorganisation1 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@mr.nobody3248 we need universal chargers.

  • @frogsintheforest
    @frogsintheforest Před 10 měsíci +4

    Wack me around the ears if I haven't got this correct. If mercury rotates slower than earth, wouldn't that mean that one day on mercury would be a greater number of days on eath, instead of the opposite as stated here? I don't mean to be a smart arse. Regardless though, I love this channel

    • @ramonconstanza4707
      @ramonconstanza4707 Před 10 měsíci +2

      You are right. To me, it is a mistake.

    • @JamesHarris-
      @JamesHarris- Před 10 měsíci

      If Mercury rotates only 1/3 as fast as earth, wouldn't that mean it takes 3 earth days to = one day on Mercury? BTW--> I don't think you are a smart ass, I think you are a happy little green frog in the forest. :-)

  • @peterholthoffman
    @peterholthoffman Před 10 měsíci +2

    A good video but "2.5x closer" isn't English or logical - multiplying by a number greater than 1 results in something bigger. We say things like "one-third the distance".

  • @fyerfyter339
    @fyerfyter339 Před 6 měsíci

    Glad to see this video. Learned many things about this not much thought about planet.

  • @Mantikal
    @Mantikal Před 10 měsíci +4

    So, if you're 30 years old on Earth, you'd be 124 1/2 years old on Mercury.

    • @joachimb5721
      @joachimb5721 Před 6 měsíci

      I don’t think you‘d survive 124 years on that hostile planet.

  • @wintersbattleofbands1144
    @wintersbattleofbands1144 Před 8 měsíci +6

    When doing a piece on Mercury, maybe find a narrator who can pronounce "Mercury" ...and "temperature."

  • @freesk8
    @freesk8 Před 8 měsíci

    Nicely done!

  • @DemocracyofLight
    @DemocracyofLight Před 6 měsíci +2

    It must be cool to be one of the artists that does all these renderings for NASA. 🙌🏼

  • @user-xt2cs3bo5k
    @user-xt2cs3bo5k Před 8 měsíci +6

    It never amazes me what GOD has created!

    • @tgstudio85
      @tgstudio85 Před 7 měsíci +5

      It amazes me how god is not seen anywhere.

    • @Chris-cj5rh
      @Chris-cj5rh Před 7 měsíci +1

      In only 6,000 years to boot!

    • @Yeedo420
      @Yeedo420 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Mental illness or troll? The world may never know.

    • @piedpiper1172
      @piedpiper1172 Před 6 měsíci

      It never amazes you? As in, you are never amazed by what sky daddy made?

  • @curtcoller3632
    @curtcoller3632 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Quote from one of the first narrator's statements: "They (the craters) are the rarest types ... unknown to modern science". Well, if they are unknown to science, how can you make that claim. The error (0:19) occurs from a stupid sentence with two different statements whereas "unknown to science" only should apply to the second part - but it does not. Listen again. GRAMMAR gentlemen GRAMMAR. If you make two different sentences everybody (including me) will understand. Certainly - no date and time of publication and many other logical problems. Just to name two: Supernova is singular, the plural is Supernovae (latin). The reasoning for 88 earth days pointing to 2.5 x nearer orbit than earth is completely wrong, yet the statements says "therefore". It allows for the conclusion that any planet orbiting a sun 2.5 times closer than another has to do with the relation between 365 ~ 88. False.

  • @EdwardClayMeow
    @EdwardClayMeow Před 8 měsíci

    Great presentation!

  • @anthonydolio8118
    @anthonydolio8118 Před 6 měsíci

    Very interesting. Thank you.

  • @kennethkatz6782
    @kennethkatz6782 Před 8 měsíci

    Very well done. We need color pictures!

  • @BIG-DIPPER-56
    @BIG-DIPPER-56 Před 3 měsíci

    You talk in "Miles"! 😎👍
    YES - I'm Subscribing !

  • @slolerner7349
    @slolerner7349 Před 8 měsíci +1

    "One day on Earth would be 59 days on Mercury. That is, the day and night on the planet lasts for three months."
    Might want to check your math

  • @g.victorpaulson8836
    @g.victorpaulson8836 Před 8 měsíci

    I appreciate the info presented, but what is "temp-yoo-cher"?

  • @Makedonac007
    @Makedonac007 Před 10 měsíci +2

    when I tap My bowl with ingredients, sometimes I see little pockets
    the pancakes

  • @foxtrotbravo__
    @foxtrotbravo__ Před 8 měsíci +1

    Does this mean mercury is not a planet, since it hasn’t cleared its orbital path?

  • @thed3m0n0id9
    @thed3m0n0id9 Před 8 měsíci

    Today I Learned! Subscibed!

  • @hellgeist_
    @hellgeist_ Před 10 měsíci +2

    Bepi Columbo's actual mission objectives: property assessment, evaluation of precious metals and water quantities, necessary for producing a reasonably accurate resource map for claimants who want to buy them now.

  • @CellarDoorx06
    @CellarDoorx06 Před 8 měsíci

    Awesome video.