How Understanding The Planet Mercury Tells Us The Secrets Of The Universe

Move over, Mars. Thanks to NASA missions like Mariner and Messenger, scientists are finally learning the secrets Mercury has to reveal. Take an in-depth look at a planet, one of the closest to Earth, that has eluded astronomers for centuries.
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Season Four of Cosmic Vistas zooms in to focus on some familiar solar bodies within our reach. How well do we really know our celestial neighbours such as Saturn and Mars? What do we have yet to learn? With the help of satellite technology and the incredible shuttles that put them into orbit, many questions about our solar system's past and future are finally being answered by science.

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[Mohua]

Amazing Mercury video footage and the secrets about every explanation. 😍👌
Many thanks to the great channel for the amazing video. ❤️

[stevepashley]

So well explained, thank you. This is an excellent video.

[thomasgoodwin]

The poles of Mercury will be an excellent rain gauge or in this case 'ice guage' to help settle the question of whether Earth formed with it's water or it was deposited later by comets.

[tyskanity]

the video information is great. the unnecessary music is very distracting. focus on the facts instead of background music or tune it down.

[normhill]

Ivans a awesome announcer for these type of videos.THANKS

[kerrychase]

Part two: Mercury was once the moon of Venus.
Venus is ~ 66.7-67.7M miles from the sun.
Mercury is ~ 29-43M miles from the sun (very elliptical) Average distance = 36M miles
This means that on its last few orbits around Venus, Mercury must have evolved tidally outward to a point somewhere around 24M miles from Venus (~43M miles from the sun, at the top of the current orbital ellipse). Long before that moment, Mercury and Venus would have evolved tidally into a stable 1:1 spin lock. Through mutual tidal forces, first Mercury and then Venus would have lost most of their spin and Mercury would have had to travel roughly 151M miles to orbit just once around Venus while spinning only once on its own axis. Then, one magic day, Mercury stepped over the line and began to fall towards the sun, picking up some speed as it went, creating the ellipse it now follows. Finally this new speed/centrifugal force tension balanced out, establishing Mercury in its own elliptical orbit somewhere near where it is today, while gradually, through increasing tidal forces from the sun, slowing its axial spin even more making it travel significantly farther in miles per spin-day than it did at Venus, until it reached the next known stable spin-lock--well defined by orbital mechanics--that of three orbits around the sun to two spins on its own axis.

[Atmanyatri]

Fascinating. Thank you very much for the amazing video

[SquirrelASMR]

7:51 guy: mercury was _finally_ getting its moment in the sun.

Murcury already being right next to the sun for most its adult life: shaddap 🥵🔥☀️

[CheapSushi]

I feel like the music is a tiny bit too loud compared to the narrator.

[cort]

What is that black rectangle object at the middle right of the screen, appearing at 16 min and 26 secs?

[craigduncan]

Imagine how the scientists and world would react if when they finally image mercury they find it is full of Germans with towels on deck chairs soaking up the sun.

[whothefoxcares]

Mercury would be a perfect place to securely hide vast amounts of gold.

[marclawyer]

It's a shame that Chernobyl and Fukushima didn't have access to these anti radiation/temperature cloths...
These craters can also be created by electric discharges: see The Electric Universe, Suspicious Observers...
There are many different explanations for phenomena, but narratives can be very powerful...see Covid 🤫

[kerrychase]

Part one: Mercury was once the moon of Venus. Mercury's and Venus' spin together with the tidal forces raised by their orbital relationship caused volcanism/tectonic action on both bodies. Eventually, Mercury evolved outward, just as our moon is doing, until it reached a point where the Sun's gravity overcame that of Venus. At that point Mercury escaped into its own orbit in a 3/2 spin lock with the Sun. This process robbed Venus of most its spin, setting up, in fact, a slight retrograde spin. The decreasing tidal forces caused the volcanos to die out, the molten cores to spin less, causing both bodies to lose most of their magnetic fields. The evidence for this is ubiquitous. Denial is futile.

[paranoidgenius]

In the science lab, I asked an astronomer if he would join me for a pint at the local, but he said he was happy where he was, playing with his balls!

[georgelopera]

Where is the center of bang in the bigbang? What is in there now?

[ClappOnUpp]

How do all these crazy planets spin around out flat earth so well? XD

[tobymurray.]

Consider that Mercury is actually Venus' moon.

[thedarkmoon]

How bright is it on the surface of Mercury, in Lux? Seems nobody knows.

[pradeepacharya]

I dont know why people are so keen in spending so much money and efforts to find things that doesnt make sense at all. It would be better to spend that money to make earth better