Major Discoveries About Mercury May Rewrite a Few Textbooks
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about Mercury discoveries that are sort of mind-blowing
Links:
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boninite
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0:00 Mercury origins
0:45 Previous missions to Mercury
1:35 Bepi Colombo mission by ESA and JAXA
2:40 Shrinking and surface features
4:00 Strange features - Mercury's hollows
5:10 Earth's analogue
6:10 Why does this exist though? It should be impossible
6:50 Mercury's tails
8:05 Similar ices to deserts on Earth - extremophile life?
9:40 Planetary migration
10:30 Did Mercury form really far? Was it larger?
11:40 Thorium anomaly as proof
12:10 Boninite evidence and Cyprus
13:30 Major geologic proof
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One day we're gonna find out Mercury was once a gas giant core or something
Thats what I instinctively thought when I first heard how dense it is
i like your pfp :3 do you have a full res somewhere?
The sun compacts planets that get close to it, so the closer to the sun the more dense a planet becomes, easier that way for the sun to eat the planets
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so how do we deal with the heat..?
I swear Anton is the David Attonbrough of space. Fantastic work as always.
NO.
Because Anton doesnt lie and use 8 & 12 year old video floor cuttings to build the WEF NWO climate change agenda crap
Can you imagine the interest he would generate if the prime TV channels had him doing documentaries of space like DA?
So anton is just a narrator?
Man FOH, even if you ignore everything else Attenborough has done in his 70-odd year career, he is THE narrator anyone you ask would be able to name.
You mean someone mostly known for his voice?
Anton is simply Anton. A guy who does great science communication.
How does he make an extremely interesting video every single day? I always give the videos a like before it starts because Anton has never made a video that bored me. But it still is amazing that someone can make such interesting content so often yet still calls us mere mortals wonderful.
A team and of course his good work ethic
Science
A source of infinite discoveries and a dedication to share will supply interesting subject matter every day beyond our lifespans.
He IS A.I.
Because he's a great guy and kinda smart of course.
Its so crazy how Mercury and Pluto were one paragraph in the solar system books of my childhood, and now we are learning so much about the crazy geochemistry. What we have learned in the last 40 years about the entire solar system is wild.
It seems every time we write off a planet as "a dull rock in space," it still has surprises for us.
Another mystery about Mercury that needs to be solved is...if it DID lose most of its mantle in a collision, where did it all go? Future missions to asteroids may shed light on this if any of them share similar composition to Mercury's surface.
One side of the mantle?,No because Mercury is round so it would have to have been several massive hits?,Unless it was molten when formed & got hit?,Getting smaller would mean something is getting colder?
The sun or mercury getting colder?,or both?,Maybe better said not as hot?
The cheesy smile at the end makes the video 1000x better.
And the wave.
School pictures type smile 😁. I remember mine 😅😅😅. 🤓😽🦜
Love it.
Yeah, as unpretentious as the universe is infinite
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Mercury is truly a fascinating planet. And, the more we learn about it, the more interesting it becomes.
It's such a slept on planet too. underrated tbh
Fun fact : The core of Mercury is about the same size as the core of the planet Mars. Because of Mercury's high density, it has the same surface gravity as Mars, even though it is only 1⁄3 the size of Mars.
@@GreasyGaryHow do you get “1/3 the size of Mars”? I calculate from Wikipedia data that Mercury is about 72% the diameter of Mars and about 52% the mass. But surface gravity is very close to the same. Although, I was thinking they were much closer in size. So, I am surprised by that, nonetheless. 🙂
If I could only watch one YT channel, I would probably choose Anton's.
Only Anton could cover textbook changing information in 16 minutes.
I am quite sure Anton has a few people helping him. It's not only Anton, he likely has a small team to help him produce the show. Not to mention quite a few people supporting him on patreon. Credit where credit is due.🎉
@@kayakMike1000 this is why you want to discredit Anton himself.
Got it.
@kayakMike1000 Well I don't see why it couldn't be, he's hyper focused on one area & very intelligent. But even if it's 50 ppl you're "giving credit to where credit is due" to imaginary ppl that you don't even know if they even exist or not 🤔, why❓️
Also every content creator of his size has a Patreon but come on you know they don't do the work they pay the bills so he can so he's thankful for that but...REALLY 🙄❓️
@kayakMike1000 if you've been following anton as long as i have you'd know that the quality of his content has always been this good. So your assumption on giving credit to his "team", whether it exists or not, is irrelevant.
@@kayakMike1000 You couldn't have written this comment without the inventor of internet or computer keyboard designers. Your life is nothing special mate, just one of the breeder among billions who have lived and died.
Anton, you must be one of the hardest working educators out there.
Another fantastic informative video that succinctly covers such fresh new understandings, thank you.
Just the oddly large eccentricity of Mercury's orbit suggests it probably had a different, maybe larger orbit in the past, so it may have indeed been brought into the current eccentric orbit by by a large impactor.
Not really, Einstein explain the eccentricity with his relativity, still we cannot exclude that at the moment.
@@marcoflumino Einstein explained the mismatch between observations of Mercury's orbit against Newtonian expectations. Einstein did not explain how Mercury became eccentric in the first place.
@@zimriel You are correct on that!
Why doesn’t Mercury take anything seriously?
She doesn’t have enough gravity.
Au contrair, it has too much large core, nearly twice the one Mars had...
There is a lot of SciFi and some real science speculating that the original 5th planet between Mars and Jupiter either blew up, suffered a cataclysmic collision, or never completely coalesced into one planet; which gives us the present asteroid belt. Although this video doesn't directly suggest this, the notion will probably surface soon. What a provocative video, thanks Anton!
Dude we solved that mystery literally a hundred years ago. It’s just leftovers from the formation of the solar system, there was no 5th planet (between mars and Jupiter, anyways). Never has been, never will be.
Your idea is comically outdated. Take it from me - I read old astronomy books for fun.
Pure speculation
@@grantschiff7544 That's why SciFi is called "speculative fiction" or, sometimes, "Futurology."
@@oberonpanopticon You didn't read what I wrote carefully enough to make a reasonable statement. Try again.
First thing i wondered finishing the video was that, could this be related to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ? I guess time will tell.
Thank you for the awesome summary Anton! How you make this material approachable, interesting, and yet so precise.......I have no idea!
Saw the aurora for the first time in my life last night. Because of the light pollution here it was hard to tell that it wasn't just a cloud or fog lit up by the lights. Still once I knew what it was it was cool. Wish I could have seen it from out in the country.
Congratulations! I've been accosted by clouds the night before last and then wildfire smoke last night. Can't catch a break.
I almost have to wonder if photo nuclear erosion is a thing due to Mercury's close proximity to the Sun.
This is basically the forced nuclear reactions due to energetic radiation.
Things like absorbing protons and neutrons due to a lack of any mechanism that would keep them slamming into the surface.
The solar wind exists mainly of charged particles mainly protons and electrons with a few heavier ions. Given that neutrons can exist only 15 minutes outside of the atomic nucleus and the solar wind takes 3-4 days to reach Mercury there are essentially no free neutrons reaching Mercury.
I always believed that Mercury was initially a hot Jupiter. Probably why the core is so big and has so much thorium.
WoW!! This was very interesting! 😊
They all are!
As always, great video Anton! And yes, Mercury definitely needs more attention.👍
And I see a lot of people asking if Mercury could be the impactor called Theia that created the Moon. Both Anton and Fraser Cain have made several videos showing why that can’t be true. In fact, Anton has a really great video about how we may have found what remains of Theia within the Earth’s mantle. It’s really great and you should check it out!
Also, computer modeling shows that Theia must have had an orbit that was very similar to Earth’s orbit. Where Mercury is now eliminates it from ever being in an orbit similar to that of Earth’s.
Your videos are amazing Your dead eye delivery tells me your more invested in the facts, great work as usual 👏
Food for thought, what IF mercury was the core of planet nine, once it wrecked havoc through out the solar system it collided with something and slowed down enough to be captured in the orbit it's currently in, since theoretically it migrated from somewhere around mars... Which ironically would of been kinda around where planet nine would of been. 🤷
Not possible, reason, the orbits of the objects in the outer solar system are too young to been made at the the time when we think Mercury moved towards the current position.
@@marcoflumino correct, but it takes time to develop orbital trajectories. Its original path may have set things in motion where we are beginning to see the results. On a solar scale especially with things on the further reaches it would take a long time, IF mercury was a core of a destroyed planet,that mass has to be somewhere.. on its way around our plain it probably nudged alot of remnants from the development stage of our solar system, or caused an imbalance and changed the orbital vector of another planet as it migrated. Alas, it was just a theory with very little knowledge invested. A fun thought, perhaps even the beginning of a answer of solar enquiries and origins.
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 😁🙂🤘
Wow. That's amazing! Can't wait to hear how this develops! Thankyou Anton as always ! ❤😊
Thanks, Anton!
I really enjoy these types of videos.
Another day of exciting information.
Wait until Anton finds out about the UAP Disclosure Amendment and the Sol Foundation.
No, you wait IF he finds out. You wont like it.
Maybe Mercury was once part of a planet between mars and Jupiter, and that planet got destroyed, leaving the astroid belt, and Mercury. Whatever destroyed the original planet is also what sent Mercury to a different orbit.
If so we'd have to see something that looks like Mercury's crust in the asteroid belt. We do not. We do see things that look like Vesta's crust, by contrast.
From the wikipedia: "The total mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be 3% that of the Moon."
So, mass isn't enough even for collision remnants
In school textbooks, they like to draw a belt in all its glory. But seriously, it's not worth even mentioning if you look close on it
It’s a fun thought - and given what Anton said I can see the logical leap. But, I don’t know if the mass calculations or if rock types are similar enough. Of course, we don’t know for sure what Mercury’s outer regions cmwrre comprised of. There’s also parts of the belt, some asteroids which are higher in volatiles - Ceres for example.
I nearly skipped this one. I am so glad I didn’t. Good job Anton & Team.😊
Anton, you have done another wonderful exploration video! Thank you! 😊
Learned something new. I didn't know mercury had a tail.
Hello Anton there is a massive solar storm hitting the earth Canada and many countries currently are seeing it. Hopefully I will see it tonight and take some pictures. My neighbors are showing me pictures and with little effort they are amazing and different
I found myself in the difficult position of trying explain it. It is not an easy task
Much interesting new information. Thanks, Anton!
Thanks for the great content, Anton!
That sounds like a truly tragic origin for the planet Mercury. As we are informed, Earth also suffered a catastrophic collision in its own origin, but instead of having its outer layers stripped away, Earth increased in mass and gained the benefit of a sizeable moon.
What is ”tragic” about it? Strange choice of word.
@@sluggo3slug Tragic covers calamitous and disastrous. Repeated sounds like the first part of a word as with "truly tragic" and "catastrophic collision" often improve readability.
❤❤❤Anton much love to you and family❤❤❤
Fascinating. Anton is a gifted science communicator
Long time been listening to anton, finally had some time --> AGAIN, excellent topics. You've my full support from belgium
Thank you, wonderful person.
From the price of textbooks we know that textbook publishers do everything they can to raise the cost of their product, thus it would make sense for them to be lobbying for lots and lots of space missions and other scientific investigations so that students have to buy new editions all the time instead of using the books their older siblings or parents used.
And what is your point? The reason for space missions has nothing to do with textbooks! The only thing you can prove or correctly say, is that the publishers take advantage of space missions discoveries to make new books, not the opposite.
@@marcoflumino Evidently you have not been blessed by the humor fairy. I was using sarcasm and satire in positing a conspiracy of textbook publishers pushing scientific discovery as a way of self-enrichment at the expense of the rest of us. It was referencing how the powerful so often do take advantage of their positions, and that scientific investigations often have to fit into the expectations of funders in order to be funded, as well as the plethora of active conspiracy theories about some really whacky things. Does it help now that I've explained it?
@@qwertyuiopgarthI don’t blame them - the line between sarcasm and stupidity doesn’t exist in the CZcams comment section. There’s no way of telling.
@@qwertyuiopgarthI've already see some textbooks sold on flash-drives. The student can even subscribe to downloadable updates.
Curse you! You figured out the real reason that Pluto was redesignated a "Dwarf Planet". Now the black helicopters will come for you and take away your birthday!
Thank you for all of your fascinating posts!!
You are wonderful Anton! Thank you!
Danke schon Anton!!
You are not blessed with Umlauts it seems...
You the best!!
Mercury is the only terrestrial planet that hasn’t had a lander on it. I mean even Saturn’s moon Titan had a lander touch down on its surface. Based on these recent findings reported here by Anton, a Mercury lander should definitely be the next planetary mission! I bet it would cost less than 1% the military budget.
welldone, always good well informed info here.
It was once between Mars and Jupiter. But it was not alone, a couple of small planetary bodies, in separate occasions, were ripped from theyr orbit by Jupiter’s gravity: one sent on a collision trajectory with Mecury, front ended the plantet so hard that dis-mantled it and the impactor disintegrated but the core remained quite intact and bounced back with low energy. That created the asteroid belt and the planetoid core could be Psyche or Davida. Meanwhile the lighter Mercury whit so low orbital velocity begins to fall to the Sun finally reaching a stable orbit as first from the star.
The second body was called Teia…
Damn, those were goood times…
We have no hints or prove that Theia and Mercury were the same object, plus we find out that Theia core reside inside our planet, so your theory is busted! For info, look at previous videos of Anton.
mercury is a hundred times the mass of the asteroid belt, and thousands of times more massive than psyche
Sorry I missed it.
@marcoflumino One thing I definitely think is possible is that a chunk of the asteroid belt could be remnants if Mercury after a collision sent it hurtling inward.
I also like the idea that Mercury was a gas giant or ice giant at one time, and it would explain a bit as well.
@@marcoflumino hi, sorry Marco, I never said they were the same body, actually I said that two object in different times were disturbed enough by Jupiter to enter in collision course one with Mercury and the other with proto Earth.🤓
As long as the orbits are not highly eccentric, I don't buy the collision migration theory fully.. it's not like the orbits would stabilize themselves with time, it would be more likely the other way around
And why not? You need to think like you are playing a pool or billiard game, every time you hit a ball you get an angle of deflection, it happens in any environment, so your "not buying" is baseless.
@@marcoflumino Apparently you are not real big on orbital mechanics, are you. The OP made an excellent point. At the bare minimum you would need two collisions. The first to drop the perihelion, and the second to drop the aphelion.
@@thekinginyellow1744 Incorrect, if the mass of one of the objects (Sun) is large enough the attraction will suffice to correct the orbit.
@@marcoflumino lol. Yeah that's how orbits work
@@marcoflumino we live in a world with n body problems. So other things like Jupiter would draw an eccentric orbit even more eccentric. What you describe is either a stupid way to troll someone or you don't have any idea about the exchange of kinetic energy to potential energy and back. Nothing will flatten out an eccentric orbit, if there is no impulse put in at exactly the right place.
Very interesting ! Thank you for the video ! All the best from Belgium
Anton Rocks!!! Love the stuff. Keep on Rockin Anton! Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love
Thanks!
Mercury's got mould on it, quickly put it back into the fridge, we can still save it!
Ha ha ha, it looks like the stuff that grows on old spsghetti sauce.
Meh, just cut off the bad bits, and eat it anyway!
Learning is fun! Thank you Anton!
Wow that's very cool new info/theories thank you! ❤
I always wondered if the crust and upper layers of Mercury down to the outer core.
Could the crust and mantle of Mercury have been shattered and created the Asteroid Belt while Mercury was pushed into its present orbit?
Also wondering if any elements that are in a different state of matter.
And childish me has to ask, "If you put Mercury on Uranus will it freeze?"
1)I was wondering the same about the asteroid belt.
2) Nope it will be shred to pieces before it reaches the surface.
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You mean VuhGeeTah?
What 9000?! Oh wait he a different number for some reason!
Why not use tbe iconic line?
How would i know? I'm still trying to figure out why im having a conversation with myself!!
@@Tripskull I have conversations all the time and it's just a number that sounded good. We've come a long way since the 90's I'm sure Kurosawa would approve of my tenacity. If not I shall go the way of the samurai 💡🪢☠️
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I love your channel. I am having trouble finding the studies you say are in the description. How am i missng these?
Great presentation as always !
What if Gaia’s impact with Theia had a third chunk that flew off and got captured by the Sun? (In an orbit parallel to the solar system’s orbital plane since that’s the plane Gaia and Theia had momentum on).
Yeah, I was wondering about that. Could Mercury be some remnant of a collision that formed the Earth and the Moon?
Or what about the fact that it has thorium levels similar to Mars? Could Mars and Mercury therefore have some common origin? Could they both have emerged from some collision?
@@manofsan Many scenarios may have played out when the solar system contained protoplanets forming from the hot disc.
It’s plausible that an impact could have formed Mars and thrown the remnant of Mercury into a closer orbit.
Very unlikely - our simulations of the moon’s formation aren’t perfect, but it’s pretty definitive that no giant planet sized chunk of core went flying off into an eccentric solar orbit. It’d also just be too convenient.
@@oberonpanopticon I’m pretty sure those simulations began with the parameter of “how could the present-day result emerge from two objects impacting” without including a planet size chunk becoming Mercury in the mandated output.
Changing the required output might change the derived input.
No, that core has been found inside our planet, Mercury is not Theia. Mercury core is still intact.
hmm.. could it be that mercury is the remnant core of the planet the ricocheted off earth back in the day that settled into it's current orbit?... seeing the structure in our outer core does kinda look like the giant peels.. maybe most of the surface and upper mantle on the collision side stripped off and plunged into the core and still there.. and the remaining cores and inner mantle went into a orbit that resulted it recently getting into tight orbit of the sun?.. possible influence of the large object out in the kuiper belt
Me personally, I think Mercury is a remnant of a collision between an object from around Mars knocking into Venus when it was smaller taking out it's core. I think this because of mercury's large core and evidence for having been stripped of outside material. This could also explain Venus's lack of solid core.
Nope Theia still reside inside our planet, see previous videos of Anton.
@@marcoflumino I'm talking about a hypothetical third planetoid
Thank you Anton! Very cool! 👍
thank you Anton and team if there is such! You raise the general bar, 🐈⬛
Maybe Mercury was once a moon of Mars that got kicked out somehow, it's only about 4 times the mass of our moon.
Maybe Mars was once a moon if Mercury?
Doubt it, since the core of Mercury is nearly twice of the Mars one and Mars has no evidence of any weird movement during his rotation or travel around the sun.....
Mars is only nine times the mass of the Moon.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Given the similarities between Mars and Mercury and the idea that they formed around the same distance from the sun I don't see how the cores would be some sort of factor especially since we don't know enough to say how exactly they formed.
The mass of Mars is 64200000 × 10^22 KG and the mass of Mercury is 33 × 10^22 KG so Mercury is very much smaller and may have lost a considerable amount of surface mass over the years being so close to the sun. We don't know why it migrated from the region around Mars or how long it has been close to the sun, that's why Mercury is our strangest planet more than just having a strange orbit and there are a lot of unanswered questions. Mercury's core is about 2017km in diameter and Mar's core is 3300km in diameter so clearly somehow a lot of Mercury's outer mass has been removed and there are many ways that could have happened but right now we don't have and might never have all the answers.
As others have pointed out - Mercury would have been far more massive than Mars. They’d have been a dual planet system - like Pluto-Charon - or we’d consider Mars the “Moon’.
Mercury was one of the moons of the planet that used to be where the asteroid belt is now.
Mercury is a hundred times more massive than the entire asteroid belt.
Mass of the belt is a fraction of what Mercury was. More likely that the Belt is a former moon of Mercury left over from the cataclysm that sent Mercury towards the Sun.
That was very interesting. One of your best!
Very interesting knowledge, thanks 👍😊
The accumulator bet would be that an ice covered super earth-sized planet (Theia) that existed beyond mars got driven inwards by Jupiter, grazed Mars (leaving Valles Marineris), heavily glanced off Earth (supplying our moon and a large percentage of our oceans), dropped off most of it's atmosphere with Venus, and arrived at it's current location as Mercury! I'd put a fiver on it!
That's a super interesting hypothesis 😁
Thanks for sharing
A least 2 problems, first Valles Marineris is too small in with to be made by a planet of the size of Mercury, second Theia is inside our planet we know that, look at previous videos of Anton.
Maybe only some of Theia is inside our planet!
@@brocnor We have no evidence that mercury has lost some of his core, no mentioning that his current core is massive....
I think it's only appropriate to watch one of Anton's videos while playing X4 Foundations
Incredible. Thank you
Amazing. I love this channel.
The asteroid belt. Outer shell of mecury that remains in the original orbit?
Asteroid belt consists of stony stuff up to Vesta, carbonaceous stuff out to Ceres, and icy stuff which migrated in (including Ceres itself). Only the S type asteroids would be candidates. And I think they formed in-place.
They'd have to demonstrate evidence of differentiation (depletion of metals) to be considered an "outer shell". Where we have found "outer shell" meteors they track with the surface of Vesta, not Mercury.
Mercury is the planet that glanced off Earth and got pulled closer to the sun.
NO, Theia the planet that slammed into Earth still reside inside our planet (Theia Core), for reference look at Anton previous videos about Theia.
Awesome as always Anton
Good video thanks Anton
Антон спасибо тебе за то что ты делаешь♥️
Thank you Anton!!!!
Interesting analysis.
Nature is so interesting. I want to stay young for a thousand years 💟🌌☮️
It's not Mercury's speed, it's the even so much faster speed of any object plunging down from an high orbit to such a close orbit, requiring breaking to plunge down at all, and then more breaking to get a round instead of highly elliptical orbit.
11:11 That instantly got me thinking.... How cool would it be if Mercury was the planet that smashed into earth, and perhaps it was less of a planets merging and more of earth stealing a large part of mercury but mercury's core was going so fast it just kept going. Of course that sounds highly improbable, but would be very cool.
Hit, run, and left us with a moon to take care of! Typical!
Thank you.
Anton, great video. This got me to thinking about who would live longer a) a man standing in the immediate blast of a nuclear weapon or b) a man standing on the surface of Mercury?
Ooooo interesting finds. Can't wait for more science to be done to narrow down the possibilities here.
My Bachlor refrigerator has the same phenomena !🍀
Finding more about the inner core collision history of our planets would really open up early bombardment.
Exciting stuff.
Moho is cool, I don't know why it's so underrated. Because technically, it's the closest planet on average, you can launch stuff to it often (provided you have the dv). Also the Sun ought to be huge there, so kind of very impressive. I really wish we could send a robot mission to Mercury (a rover!), it would be so cool. Now I desperately want to play KSP and check on my Moho expedition. I really liked the comet-Mercury from the video, that was pretty spectacular.
Outstanding, thanks Anton. Bepi-C will give us a new window on Mercury, a migrant planet.
Thank you
Always awesome.
thank you
I’m actually not surprised. Even today, discussions about the planets, all the planets, starts with planets essentially as we see them today. I’ve been waiting all my life for the papers discussing “how to build planets”, and have not seen even one. And okay, it’s a subject fraught with speculation. That said, I have always envisioned the proto solar nebula as a very messy disk of dust and bits of rock that, over time, kept accumulating more and more stuff. In that view, the very early solar system had LOTS of planetoids, or the true building blocks of our eventual retinue of planets.
When they joined hands, big things happened. Two planets are now hypothesized to have had big collisions late in their formation: earth and Pluto. In my view, EVERY planet grew that way, with the gas giants scarfing up the majority of everything not nailed down. Those big late collisions could do lots of transforming, including growing planets, blasting some into pieces, and sending planetary cores into very different orbits.
Maybe with the advent of AI we will eventually see scenarios on how planets get built from scratch. Love the vid btw.
To tthink I always thought of Mercury as a hot dead place; space never ceases to amaze.
I don't know why but mercury has always been my favorite one
In the image of the field of evaporative holes there seems to be some kind of orientation, as if the region were raked by a Titan, or a sedimentary region tilted and then eroded.
Realy I like this video so so much like you can imagine its so much its so interestyng
This is brilliant
Very interesting video about a planet rarely spotlighted. Perhaps the Caloris Basin reflects a collision from the past which might have changed Mercury's orbit. Planetary migrations were discussed by Velikovsky in his book Worlds in Collision. He may have been wrong in the details, but it's becoming more and more obvious that our early solar system was a very different place than it is today. I look forward to the results of the Beppo-Colombo mission.
Wow. I was sorta ho hum about Mercury. But now, for all these reasons, I’m really excited.
Are there any rough estimates (highs and lows) for how large Mercury may have been? E.g. Mars sized to Earth sized (smaller?) (bigger??). Thanks!
When he mentioned Mercury starting somewhere other than its current location; it reminded me of the damage a passing rouge planet or star could do to a solar system's orbit. Just one reason why humanity needs to develop into a multi-silar aystem civalization, so humanity as a species can survive even such a disaster. I have considered the feasability of attaching a colony to a commit; either directly ro it's surface, buried deep inside it, or teathered far behind it, which of xourse would bw a one way trip unless the in commit ia one like Haley's Comit, which orbit takes 75.84 years. Imagine if we could place radio telescopes on it's aurface that could survive such a journey; and how using images taken along it's journey could show us more than we can aee from earth orbit.
Saturn is beautiful and as a gas giant my favorite BUT Mercury is my favorite of the rocky planets. I love the fact it laughs at the Sun. It rotates/orbits so fast not all the ice has melted. I love that, so close to the Sun and yet ice exists. I also love the colors the filters can produce when taking photos of it. It's beautiful and any planet that has a tail......yea gotta love it.
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