The Hardest to Reach Planet in the Solar System Finally in BepiColombo's Sights

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  • What the BepiColombo space probe has discovered so far. Go to betterhelp.com/astrum for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help (ad)
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    References :
    Constructional volcanic edifices on Mercury - bit.ly/3wJD9lE
    The BepiColombo Planetary Magnetometer MPO-MAG: What Can We Learn from the Hermean Magnetic Field? - bit.ly/3V6MlKq
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    Caloris Basin - go.nasa.gov/3V5GftA
    BepiColombo’s second Mercury flyby - bit.ly/3ytn2t0
    BepiColombo's first views of Mercury - bit.ly/3WVbadH
    ESA - BepiColombo’s first tastes of Mercury science - bit.ly/3V9FwYz
    ESA - A trio of images highlight BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby - bit.ly/4bMSSPW
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Komentáře • 496

  • @microbuilder
    @microbuilder Před 25 dny +177

    Growing up with shows like Star Trek, these videos, if nothing else, show me just how far we have come, and just how far we have to go...equally impressed and frustrated lol

    • @jerseybound717
      @jerseybound717 Před 25 dny +23

      Just think of how much further we would have gotten if people didn't lose interest in NASA so early on. We lost a lot of tech and things to be able to push more people into space because the public got bored and didn't want to pay taxes to Nasa anymore. Nasa's budget doesn't even show on a scale to the defense budget,

    • @Ritziey
      @Ritziey Před 25 dny

      i dont know about u.s system but doesn't it depend on the ruling government to decide the allotment of budgets for nasa or defence etc. they could allocate a little more for space science @@jerseybound717

    • @ntsejfamyaj
      @ntsejfamyaj Před 24 dny +3

      Lucky you. I grew up watching Trump criminal and civil trials, along with Ukraine combat videos.

    • @musicbro8225
      @musicbro8225 Před 24 dny

      @@jerseybound717 I don't think it's fair to blame all of common man (to be un-pc) - we are guided by our economies and those who drive them. If they get bored with it, or more to the point, couldn't see the profit in it compared to the industry of destruction and reconstruction then what could you or I do to change that?
      We have been 'inspired' by corruption and war with psychological manipulation and misinformation, as if that is our true nature - we could have been lead down a more loving and cooperative path. Trouble is we could never know because we give in to our 'devils' with barely a whimper, the cynics have won.

    • @doug8515
      @doug8515 Před 24 dny +1

      Human's are still playing with expensive fireworks, 'star trek' is a long long way off yet...

  • @robsin2810
    @robsin2810 Před 25 dny +35

    Alex, I thank you and your team for expanding my old brain. Your voice and ability to explain the subjects is just wonderful.👍🙏🇦🇺

  • @johnproctor6438
    @johnproctor6438 Před 25 dny +120

    Pampu facula sounds like something I would call someone when I’m drunk.

    • @advicepirate8673
      @advicepirate8673 Před 25 dny +8

      lmao

    • @ElDerpy
      @ElDerpy Před 25 dny +5

      said it regularly when i worked in an italian restaurant and the chef would stomp on my feet when passing

    • @wyattboothby5285
      @wyattboothby5285 Před 25 dny +6

      Sounds like something I'd call ME when I'm drunk..

    • @michaellee6489
      @michaellee6489 Před 24 dny +1

      Aaaaaahahahahaha lmao!

    • @nickychimes4719
      @nickychimes4719 Před 23 dny

      It's from Harry potter mate, it's actually a spell to summon a big sandwich

  • @jeremyglass4283
    @jeremyglass4283 Před 25 dny +89

    did anyone else initially think the Manley crater was named after Scott Manley?😂

    • @Vinemaple
      @Vinemaple Před 25 dny +8

      "Manley by name but not by nature, eh?" --Connie Bloor

    • @Thepher6
      @Thepher6 Před 25 dny +18

      Clearly this imposter didn't fly safe, leaving the crater and all

    • @IvanRodriguez-tl2zr
      @IvanRodriguez-tl2zr Před 25 dny +11

      33434 Scottmanley: Am I a joke to you?

    • @rickde0602
      @rickde0602 Před 24 dny +4

      I certainly did! Fly safe.

    • @user-un8tv1pp8m
      @user-un8tv1pp8m Před 20 dny

      I knew it was not -
      but I too did think about him with a _"youtubers probably will be used as honorable namings at one point"._

  • @jippalippa
    @jippalippa Před 25 dny +120

    Bepicolombo is such a silly name; I love it!

    • @Taverius
      @Taverius Před 25 dny +39

      It's named after Giuseppe "Bepi" Colobo, an Italian scientist working for NASA who figured some of the weirder orbital mechanics things for Mercury flybys in the 70s for the Mariner program.
      We wouldn't really have much data on Mercury without him.

    • @user-un8tv1pp8m
      @user-un8tv1pp8m Před 25 dny +6

      Granpa columbus.

    • @Deletirium
      @Deletirium Před 25 dny +10

      It sounds like a childrens' educational cartoon. A dancing blue bear or something.

    • @jerseybound717
      @jerseybound717 Před 25 dny +5

      When you find out it's named after Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo

    • @hyperturbotechnomike
      @hyperturbotechnomike Před 25 dny +17

      My name is Giuseppe Bepi Colombo, but everybody calls me Bepi Colombo

  • @robbierobinson8819
    @robbierobinson8819 Před 25 dny +11

    Starting my fascination with space when as a junior school kid our teacher brought a radio into the room so we could hear the broadcast of the beeps of Sputnik 1 it is mind-blowing to have videos and reports such as you do on Astrum bringing real images and data that were mainly in artist's ideas and writer's imaginings in Astounding or other SciFi magazines. Thank you for such a great channel and real human narration.

  • @alimohammedabd
    @alimohammedabd Před 24 dny +6

    Gotta say. All your vids are very informative. Stuff like this should be on tv.

  • @nightphyre1021
    @nightphyre1021 Před 24 dny +11

    Great work, you produce better content in higher quantity than entire tv networks. You are going to be like Carl Sagan for many young kids. You make me happy the internet exists.

  • @r.adhamaal5401
    @r.adhamaal5401 Před 23 dny +5

    This is a boon for the common people who on earth wants information like this.Thanks Astrum

  • @iamdmc
    @iamdmc Před 25 dny +6

    Hope your throat feels better soon! Strange that I've watched so many of your videos that I can hear a rasp in your voice.
    Thanks for yet another informative and inspiring video! As a neuroscientist who wishes he'd become an astrophysicist I am often glued to your videos!

    • @lexinwonderland5741
      @lexinwonderland5741 Před 25 dny +2

      funny enough, I went the opposite direction. May we both find better fortune in our new pursuits! interdisciplinary knowledge is responsible for huge amounts of scientific progress, so I have no doubt you'll be more than welcomed in the field!

  • @colindeer4908
    @colindeer4908 Před 22 dny +3

    Alex, I found this presentation fascinating. Wow, that final audio clip was awesome . The images provide us with so much detail of our distant cousin planet . I do love hearing your presentation.

  • @TheUnatuber
    @TheUnatuber Před 25 dny +71

    "Oh, excuse me, sir. I'm sorry, sir, but another question just occurred to me."

    • @nathanddrews
      @nathanddrews Před 25 dny +9

      "I can see that you're really very busy and I don't want to be a bother..."

    • @mrsupremegascon
      @mrsupremegascon Před 24 dny +9

      You know, there's just one more thing that’s been nagging at me, Mr. Mercury. You've got this solid core of yours, see, and it's unusually large, bigger than what folks usually expect for someone of your stature. Mind if I ask how that happened?

  • @ndstar4267
    @ndstar4267 Před 25 dny +5

    I have always been fascinated with Mercury along with Pluto ever since I was 10 years old. Back in the 70’s, thank you very much for your ongoing info. In the intriguing universe.

    • @MrTonaluv
      @MrTonaluv Před 23 dny

      Yes I grew up with both Mercury and Pluto underexplored. I guess they weren't a priority compared to other planets. Also Pluto was ridiculously far away which is a big reason TBH.

  • @ImHighOnPropain
    @ImHighOnPropain Před 25 dny +9

    Love the videos were you talk about space missions!

  • @valentinobaksa9119
    @valentinobaksa9119 Před 25 dny +5

    New episode just before bedtime, thank You! ❤

  • @jonathanrossroberts
    @jonathanrossroberts Před 25 dny +6

    Wonderful video as always! Thanks for the great content!

  • @Deletirium
    @Deletirium Před 25 dny +29

    How do you think we can tell everytime someone's smiling, just by the sound of their voice? I'm always puzzled by that. Alex always starts off smiling, then gets a little more serious, then half smiles the rest of the time. It's so weird how you can immediately hear the voice change.

    • @justinmason5042
      @justinmason5042 Před 25 dny +6

      It’s probably really difficult to keep that up for the hours and hours that it takes to record something like this lol

    • @HelloThere.....
      @HelloThere..... Před 23 dny +2

      Your voice changes depending on the shape of your mouth.

    • @Sniperboy5551
      @Sniperboy5551 Před 23 dny

      @HelloThere..... Yeah, but it’s interesting how we can interpret those emotions so naturally.

    • @stevoo3237
      @stevoo3237 Před 16 dny

      It's because he is using Better Health

  • @danieldmg
    @danieldmg Před 25 dny +8

    So interesting, congrats for this video!

  • @JoyRBradford
    @JoyRBradford Před 25 dny +9

    Awesome! Thank you Astrum! ✨

  • @tofudasimp4140
    @tofudasimp4140 Před 25 dny +8

    loving these vids keep up the good work :)

  • @pablitopnl
    @pablitopnl Před 25 dny +78

    Great video is always! Also, I understand sponsors are greed to have to be able to keep videos going. However, please, if you could reconsider the sponsorship with better help. Their practices are quite unethical and would love to see an improved vetting system or practice with feature sponsors

    • @robinbinder8658
      @robinbinder8658 Před 24 dny +1

      imma add this channel to my blacklist. how can they seriously still do this !!! its truly baffling...

    • @shootingblueyes
      @shootingblueyes Před 24 dny +2

      Scott Manley makes better quality videos on similar topics, I highly suggest him as an alternative

    • @Sniperboy5551
      @Sniperboy5551 Před 23 dny +3

      @robinbinder8658 Bye, I guess. Why does everyone have to whine about sponsorships? He’s not forcing you to buy anything… he’s making his money.

    • @Yezpahr
      @Yezpahr Před 23 dny

      ​ @Sniperboy5551 It's just a phase... like when everybody said "wazaaaaa". Now everybody overreacts over a (proven) sham sponsor.
      And truth be told, it's not even certain he gets paid. They might throw around terms like CTR/CPM and say it's bad so they pay less or they want you to do another video.
      Established Titles started this whiteknighting phenomenon, they overdid their scam by also scamming the creators and now every sponsor gets scrutinized 10x more.

    • @MrOskiee
      @MrOskiee Před 22 dny +2

      Don't hate the player, hate the game.

  • @jugomebu
    @jugomebu Před 25 dny +5

    Thank you for another beautiful upload

  • @AS-zc8mr
    @AS-zc8mr Před 25 dny +5

    cheers from Santiago Chile!!!

  • @ZMAN_420
    @ZMAN_420 Před 25 dny +4

    Great Content! Thanks for the upload.👍🏻

  • @MWL_-jo3nf
    @MWL_-jo3nf Před 25 dny +8

    Uploaded 9 minutes ago, perfect timing I'm watching this for sleep now😂

  • @CrispyLooper2112
    @CrispyLooper2112 Před 25 dny +2

    Fascinating!! Great work!! Love this channel

  • @CaidicusProductions
    @CaidicusProductions Před 21 dnem +1

    What an amazing presentation. Thank you, Alex, it was simply beautiful.

  • @andyh5666
    @andyh5666 Před 25 dny +17

    13:07 Alex, for some unknown reason the timbre of your voice wakes up my robovac and it sits there asking for further instructions 🤣 Not the first time I've noticed this but only seems to happen with your voice in particular 👍 Great content.

  • @earnestbrown6524
    @earnestbrown6524 Před 25 dny +7

    That 1st audio clip took me back to my days of looking at SONAR displays.

  • @goosenotmaverick1156
    @goosenotmaverick1156 Před 25 dny +2

    Sounding a bit under the weather, hope you're doing well! And thanks for awesome content as always

  • @robertfindley921
    @robertfindley921 Před 25 dny +17

    Love it! Science is awesome. I wish people would stop spending so much time and money on mythology and focus on science.

    • @ElysetheEevee
      @ElysetheEevee Před 25 dny +3

      ​@@Reformsqua
      That's a huge claim you're making. I'd beg to differ. Humans are STILL working on multigenerational and international projects to this day that have very little to do with either, apart from possibly being a belief of the scientists involved in some manner (generally religion). That's far from making it the core basis for doing the research in the first place.

    • @Lavonne9870
      @Lavonne9870 Před 24 dny

      I wish they'd stop spending the money on trillion dollar jets that ultimately got canned, and spend it on research or infrastructure.

    • @badlaamaurukehu
      @badlaamaurukehu Před 23 dny

      I love how people get all bent about "mythology" while never actually studying the subject. Almost like it's some sort of allergy. On the other hand, many of the top scientific minds in history were fascinated and inspired by it. Still are.

    • @kevinsayes
      @kevinsayes Před 20 dny

      “Amen” lol

  • @richardletaw4068
    @richardletaw4068 Před 25 dny +6

    THAT is what synthesizers were designed for! At least, in part.
    Early synth designers didn’t see them as limited to being musical instruments, and therefore did not include keyboards. ANY transducer capable of producing an appropriate voltage was fair game.
    Those guys would have loved this! (As do I.)
    Thanks for sharing this, Astrum!

  • @michaellee6489
    @michaellee6489 Před 24 dny

    Alex, LOVED those "sonified" audio clips. How Eerie and Beautiful!

  • @Scott-fj9uf
    @Scott-fj9uf Před 24 dny +2

    Better help was not helpful to someone I love who needed help.
    Love you Alex.

  • @milodemoray
    @milodemoray Před 24 dny

    Thanks for this video Alex.The ability for us to "hear" the data brings an amazing quality to astronomy.

  • @Dexterdevloper
    @Dexterdevloper Před 24 dny

    thank you so so much , I really love your videos.

  • @Liam25433
    @Liam25433 Před 25 dny +2

    Love your vids Astrum

  • @ruperterskin2117
    @ruperterskin2117 Před 25 dny +2

    Cool. Thanks for sharing.

  • @-UnchartedSky-
    @-UnchartedSky- Před 25 dny +5

    If all there was to watch was Astrum's videos, I would still be happy :)

    • @Deletirium
      @Deletirium Před 24 dny +2

      If you like Astrum, you'll enjoy Anton Petrov. Similar vibe, soothing voice, makes esoteric and complex subjects accesible. Nice guy, too.

    • @-UnchartedSky-
      @-UnchartedSky- Před 24 dny +2

      @@Deletirium I also love the wonderful person, Anton :)

  • @fr57ujf
    @fr57ujf Před 25 dny +5

    "Two probes and a propulsion module". The image shows four objects: Transfer Module, Planetary Orbiter, Sun Shield, and Magnetosphericc Orbiter. Can make heads or tail out of that.

    • @francislutz8027
      @francislutz8027 Před 25 dny

      It's a heat shield/sun shield. It's a simple piece of metal formed to he shape needed.
      Chill Winston!

    • @wyattboothby5285
      @wyattboothby5285 Před 25 dny +2

      The sun shield is a completely passive module. It has no flight systems, sensors of scientific value or data collection purposes. It's basically a lens cap that gets jettisoned when the orbiter separates from the other components. But yeah, it is technically four sections, so I caught that too. I think he just left it out because it doesn't have a cool acronym like MIO.

    • @fr57ujf
      @fr57ujf Před 25 dny +1

      If the two probes are the Planetary Orbiter and the Magnetospheric Orbiter, is the Transfer Module the Propulsion Module?

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 Před 14 dny

      ​@@fr57ujf that would seem a sound guess

  • @mykelevangelista6492
    @mykelevangelista6492 Před 24 dny

    Great video. So looking forward to BepiColombo's final arrival and the information we'll receive. Hope all goes well 👍

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk Před 25 dny

    I'm still so impressed by the incredible planning that resulted in this probe making it as far as it has. And super excited that its orbits will begin in my birth month, hehe!

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary Před 25 dny +2

    Love your work alex😁

  • @Mr.Benson
    @Mr.Benson Před 25 dny +5

    Any truth to the rumor that the space craft was named after the Buca di Beppo restaurant chain?

  • @hitmanct1
    @hitmanct1 Před 10 dny

    That synth flyby gives me the chills. 😮

  • @wadedyllancupido7085
    @wadedyllancupido7085 Před 24 dny

    Love your videos.

  • @davidrees1840
    @davidrees1840 Před 25 dny +1

    Thanks for such an excellent video. Question: what are the background lines at ~10:21?

  • @RocktCityTim
    @RocktCityTim Před 24 dny

    Thanks, Alex! Your Astrum channel should be standard course material for all high school-level STEM curricula. (oh, and saw my Patreon star 😄🚀)

  • @masterxyr
    @masterxyr Před 23 dny

    delicious insight catered to all of us directly to our pockets and homes. such a wonderful time to be alive, cosmologically speaking :))

  • @amon_69
    @amon_69 Před 25 dny

    finally it's time for this mission to give us data. it's been ages. first time i heard of it was in 2012 on a German space podcast called "Raumzeit".

  • @SleepyCod467
    @SleepyCod467 Před 25 dny +6

    0:53 actually the constellation of pisces is 350 light years away 🤓

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM Před 25 dny +4

      Gamma Piscium (γ Psc), 138 lightyears, magnitude 3.70.🤓
      Omega Piscium (ω Psc), 106 lightyears, class F4IV, magnitude 4.03.🤓
      Revati ("rich"), otherwise Zeta Piscium (ζ Psc), 148 lightyears, class A7IV, magnitude 5.21.🤓
      Epsilon Piscium (ε Psc), 190 lightyears, class K0III, magnitude 4.27.🤓

  • @zoebulle9102
    @zoebulle9102 Před 25 dny +1

    this is the earliest i’ve been. love your videos! 🌌

  • @fr.chrisbazyouros6832
    @fr.chrisbazyouros6832 Před 25 dny

    Did anyone else think he was calling the craft "Baby Columbo"? Great video as always!

  • @HarmonixJourney
    @HarmonixJourney Před 25 dny +2

    So damn fascinating.

  • @Shanghaimartin
    @Shanghaimartin Před 25 dny +1

    I gotta believe that the extra cost of sending it up with more rocket propellant to they can scrub more speed faster HAS to be worth it if it might shorten the mission time by months or even years.

  • @BryanLawlor
    @BryanLawlor Před 25 dny +1

    So cool! I have never heard of BepiColombo before... it's a catchy name!

  • @pcojedi
    @pcojedi Před 24 dny

    great video

  • @WombuNan
    @WombuNan Před 23 dny

    Such goofy sounds, I love it ☺️❤️

  • @jigsawyork2001
    @jigsawyork2001 Před 16 dny

    Good content

  • @russellneitzke4972
    @russellneitzke4972 Před 25 dny +1

    Does the isotope for the calcium on Mercury match the calcium in our bones? Is the skeleton of life and the drake equation dependent on heavy late bombardment exiting debris between proto planets?

  • @chrislong3938
    @chrislong3938 Před 24 dny +1

    I can only imagine what a sunrise must look like there!

    • @Gdub-ok7ur
      @Gdub-ok7ur Před 19 dny

      Very long. Mercury's day is almost twice as long as its year. About 176 earth days long.

  • @edunger1313
    @edunger1313 Před 25 dny +2

    Sounds like Alex has cold. Take care of yourself, buddy!

  • @PurpleNoir
    @PurpleNoir Před 25 dny

    Cool video bruh 👍

  • @iggyzorro2406
    @iggyzorro2406 Před 24 dny +1

    very nice video, thank you. And thank you for not having one of those annoying A.I. narrations. BTW, are you from the same place as the actor Alan Cumming (somewhere in Scotland, I think) there is a similarity in the sound of your speech.

  • @aetherial87
    @aetherial87 Před 22 dny

    Those sounds remind me of creepy ambient music tracks used in some sci-fi, lol. Trippy.

  • @nathanddrews
    @nathanddrews Před 25 dny

    9:27 The Orb's latest album insane!

  • @shmackydoodRon
    @shmackydoodRon Před 8 dny +1

    I can’t believe those science hippies took Vulcan off the list of planets.

  • @UnitSe7en
    @UnitSe7en Před 2 hodinami

    Scott's face when they announce Manley crater.
    Scott's face a few moments later when he learns who it's about.

  • @ryryguy321
    @ryryguy321 Před 25 dny

    The fly by sounds straight out of the movie Sunshine

  • @ichoppabroccoli3670
    @ichoppabroccoli3670 Před 25 dny +2

    So the magneto field sounds like something from Pink Floyd. Interesting!

  • @musicbro8225
    @musicbro8225 Před 24 dny

    You revive my youthful wonder!

  • @edutainme7265
    @edutainme7265 Před 25 dny

    Extraordinary

  • @Jah_Rastafari_ORIG
    @Jah_Rastafari_ORIG Před 25 dny

    By the first pictures you showed, I had expected the name of the mission to be M.2-NVME...

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 Před 25 dny +1

    a much better use of the wealth that the planet generates
    than weapons, I'd say.

  • @JafoTHEgreat
    @JafoTHEgreat Před 25 dny

    I'm excited to have my name attached to the Clipper Satellite mission to check out the Europa oceans.

  • @cyphatechie5459
    @cyphatechie5459 Před 22 dny

    what brand of microphone does astrum use

  • @orotubi
    @orotubi Před 25 dny

    The name Mio reminds me of Sailor Mercury, Ami Mizuno. She wields the power of hydrokinesis, water/ice power.
    The fact that Mio means "waterway" is such a befitting name for this mission ❤

  • @cupathy
    @cupathy Před 6 dny +1

    10:57 did anyone notice the smiley face shaped craters sort of above the center of the screen?

  • @jonathanchester5916
    @jonathanchester5916 Před 9 dny

    Wow, today I ditched a new Event Horizon video for this one. Bravo!

  • @JAmonOfficial
    @JAmonOfficial Před 25 dny +6

    Aliens: 'we be like hello guys!'' Earth: 'nah mateys, we scienced your shits out'

  • @into_the_void
    @into_the_void Před 25 dny +1

    I was reading it as " be epic Colombo " 😂

  • @ramley
    @ramley Před 19 dny

    I wish I had a news app on my phone that was purely outer space news about new discoveries curated by Astrum

  • @edwardp7725
    @edwardp7725 Před 25 dny +1

    "You see, thats where you miscalculated. I had the boys over at the lab launch a probe to the hardest planet to reach in the solar system. *holds out picture* The probe found this body on its surface. Your wife, with that missing cufflink from your suit"*holds up suit missing a cufflink* *dramatic music*

  • @Titus-as-the-Roman
    @Titus-as-the-Roman Před 25 dny +2

    I've had the privilege of a long life as a very interested science observer (science is my passion but it don't pay Squat). From the early 60's thru to mid 70's school years thru to now, I've witnessed the evolution of what I call High Layman information regarding Science (Mercury). My opinion with a Dollar added will get you a 2nd day Doughnut at the Deli, with that said I think Mercury was a Neptune type gas semi-giant that's had all it's upper gas and liquid atmosphere blowtorched off. We had a Hot Semi-Jupiter but not any more.

    • @Astronomical_YouTube
      @Astronomical_YouTube Před 24 dny

      Sorry, but that's not the case. At 0.4 AU, Mercury is still far enough away from the Sun that evaporation would take a long, long time. So much time, that the amount of craters we see on it's surface wouldn't match with the amount of craters that we'd expect to see. It'd be noticably off. Of course that's not even mentioning the fact that hydrogen and helium were a very sparse gas in the inner solar system, making Mercury - closest to the Sun and least massive planet in the inner solar system - at the lowest chance of ever developing into any form of gas giant.

    • @Titus-as-the-Roman
      @Titus-as-the-Roman Před 24 dny

      @@Astronomical_CZcams- Sir, you're most likely quite Correct, for brevity I 'Try'(*) to keep short as possible but there a point here most missed, I've spent a Long lifetime with various scientific facts, set in stone with all agreeing it's truth, only to be turned on it's head 10 years later by new and more complete evidence. I've seen it time and again, be careful on how hard you hang your hat onto Any Theory, nothing worse than eating scientific crow, as for me I'm a dumba$$, don't care how wrong I may be, professionals' another story- (*), don't always succeed. P.S.- example Hoyle's refusal to admit to any other universal theory but his Own. He was never regarded with the kind of respect he once had before the debate.

    • @illarionbykov7401
      @illarionbykov7401 Před 24 dny

      ​​@@Astronomical_CZcams"hydrogen and helium were a very sparse gas in the inner solar system" how can we know that now?

    • @Astronomical_YouTube
      @Astronomical_YouTube Před 23 dny

      @@illarionbykov7401 because if it wasn't, all terrestrial planets would currently be gas giants.

    • @Astronomical_YouTube
      @Astronomical_YouTube Před 23 dny

      @@illarionbykov7401 very good reply. I gave you a perfectly clear response; which wasnt just ''because it wasnt'' read my reply again and observe how there is more text after that. Your reaction is basically ''lol you're lying'' without providing an objection to explain to me why i could be wrong. The distribution of gas and dust in the early solar system is a researched topic, and the fact that you're clueless about it doesn't mean that science is clueless about it.
      In case you want me to tell you more about early solar system research, or ''ancient alien scrolls'' as you like to call it; the reason of the abscense of hydrogen and helium in the inner solar system is because of the sun's radiation. The outward force from the solar radiation pushed out the lighter elements to further distances from the sun, where the solar radiation was less extreme, leaving heavier atoms like iron and silicate behind. That's how we got the heavy and dense terrestrial planets in the inner solar system, and less dense gas planets further from the Sun.

  • @freddiesan
    @freddiesan Před 25 dny +1

    🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼

  • @your20downrange
    @your20downrange Před 20 dny

    Why no mention of the plasma thruster problem?

  • @RandomExitsJT
    @RandomExitsJT Před 25 dny

    I wonder how it fared with these latest CMEs

  • @matusmotlo3854
    @matusmotlo3854 Před 24 dny

    Will it provide som high quality photos of mercury alone once the probes are decoupled?

  • @LorandBL
    @LorandBL Před 24 dny

    Pampu Facula and the Beagle Rupes is my new band name!

  • @Leonardohummel
    @Leonardohummel Před 25 dny +1

    Que grande el pibe colombo

  • @genghisgalahad8465
    @genghisgalahad8465 Před 23 dny

    BepiColombo: just, just one more thing, i couldn't help but notice while passing by Mercury....

  • @leatherelf2078
    @leatherelf2078 Před 25 dny

    Everything about astrophysics amazes me because it is all possible when one day, a man had an idea about what he saw with a prism in sunlight.

  • @khutikhuti
    @khutikhuti Před 25 dny

    11:56 What's up with that big crater to the far right? It looks like it has 90 degree walls, square lookin' crater 🤔 is that just like, overlapping craters or something? 🤷‍♂️

  • @Railfanunionpacific5277
    @Railfanunionpacific5277 Před 25 dny +2

    8:13 Plastic pipe falling

  • @DeltaR2023
    @DeltaR2023 Před 25 dny

    Can the intensity of the magnetic field be used to map planets gravitational field?

  • @milosterwheeler2520
    @milosterwheeler2520 Před 25 dny +2

    What happens to the craft after it orbits Mercury for one or two years? Do we crash it into Mercury - or the Sun?

  • @klamka23
    @klamka23 Před 25 dny +2

    Nice

  • @Ziangal
    @Ziangal Před 24 dny

    Are there any soundboard artists that could remix those sounds into something like a Mercury mash up beat? Or similar cool name.

  • @stemartin6671
    @stemartin6671 Před 21 dnem

    The second soundbite needs to find its way into a jungle tune lol

  • @DjLevisN1
    @DjLevisN1 Před 25 dny +2

    First!? Always cool videos Astrum! Hello from Poland!