Note: This is a remaster of the original Mercury video that I made about 6 years ago (crazy how time flies!). Here's the original for a comparison: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m3ZUhpisWeQ.html Here's the patch notes for the remaster: - 60fps instead of 30fps - Updated crappy CGI of Mercury's orbit with Space Engine footage - Updated information where applicable - Fixed grammar mistakes - Totally re-recorded the audio - New music - New visuals showcasing Mercury's magnetic field and its interaction with its exosphere and the solar wind - New views of Mercury's North Pole - New views of recent Mercury transits - Space Engine view of the rotation and orbit of Mercury - Closed captions now available (previous video only had auto-generated captions) - Pacing changes - Other minor changes
Please upscale to at least 1440p on these re-masters before re-upload as youtube compression is terrible at 1080p60 especially. Uploading and doubling frame rate actually causes lots of dropped frames and stuttering/ hitching on youtube video player for some reason. It's probably some ai trying to drop duplicated frames to save bandwidth but it ends up wrecking the smoothness you are trying to achieve so best leave it at 30 fps and up resolution instead of doubling framerate with duplicate frames.
@Millennial Smark yes indeed. All the planets and comets and asteroids and stuffs within the Oort clouds are all moons of the sun. Which is about 1.5 lightyears away from the sun if I’m correct
A comparison of the moon and mercury size wise would be cool, also, would the sun look much bigger because mercury is so much closer to it? Things I must know...
Love your content! I recently watched a video detailing the mind boggling distances between the sun, the planets and the inner and outer rims of the Oort Cloud. It seems to be a predictable aspect of most stars, so I was wondering if you would ever consider making a video about how an Oort Cloud would manifest around a Physical ( not optical) Binary, Triple or evening Sextuple star systems. Your enthusiasm for astronomy and cosmology always keeps me coming back, so I hope this suggestion isn’t too niche. What do you think? Also, do you have a Twitter I can follow you at? Best from Japan 🙏⭐️🌙
@@Muddler182 Or people indoors, under trees, etc. It's actually an interesting thought experiment, are you still "in" a picture if you are not visible in it, like if you were behind a tree? The photons reflecting off you aren't being captured but you are still physically present in the general area the photo is capturing light from.
Mercury is way more interesting than I thought. I was especially fascinated by the rotation & how the sun would appear to someone standing on Mercury. Thank you so much for your exceptional videos!
Our Moon has colors as well, just check the so called "true color" pictures of the Moon that some astrophotographers take. It actually shows that there's a lot of oxidation on the surface of the Moon.
Sending things to the planets closer to the Sun than Earth is a tad bit trickier. This is because the probe is "falling" into the Sun as it goes towards the planet and it's speed keeps increasing. There's that Japanese probe that just couldn't catch on to Venus and they had to wait 10 years to try again.
@@ianbcnp Wow can't believe Astrum is only at almost 500k. You're right thought if everyone gave like 5 dollars we'd have 2,500,000 which is not enough at all
I never would have thought the planet closest to the sun would have areas cold enough to have ice. Really interesting. I just have to say, this is the best educational YT channel I've seen. You excel at presenting a topic in a way that makes it exciting and leaves people wanting to know more. I had science teachers who could have presented to their class all the same information that you do, but the way in which they did it would put the class to sleep. I guess what I'm saying is, thanks for not being boring!
Never knew mercury had water ice. I guess with it being closer to the poles, along with mercury hardly having an axial tilt and somewhat of an magnetic field that water is relatively safe...
Interesting. I wonder if it might be possible to establish a permanent base on mercury. If you put it at the poles, the temperature is quite low but not ridiculously so, and stable. Envision building a greenhouse dome) covering a small area. It would bring the temperature up in that area under the dome permitting electronics, and possibly people, to visit it.
Year late, but Isaac Arthur has a good video on that, and one for how we might colonize every other rocky object in our system including out to the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud. If I recall, the best way to deal with the radiation and heat would be to build in a crater or underground, and you could even spin up the entire habitat (rotating in another larger cylinder) to get Earth normal gravity inside. Would have to be fairly massive or spin quite quickly of course, but a permanent settlement probably would be anyways. And you'd definitely want 1g or close to it for a permanent human habitation. I highly recommend his channel if you often ponder things like permanent off world bases.
absolutely mind blowing, and I love how you let the amazing info speak for itself with your low-key, relaxing presentation of the science. one of the best channels out there
As always I've really been enjoying watching the video. Am lookin forward to the remastered episodes! This refreshed so much knowledge in my head, thank you!. Cant wait for BepiColumbo to arrive. We need to talk more about mercury.
You forgot to mention one of the koolest aspects of Mercury: How a previously-vexing anomaly in Mercury's orbit was used to prove Einstein's Relativity theory Also, there's been some recent speculation that the high-density of this tiny planet's composition might (heavy emphasis on "might") be explained by it having once been the core of a gas giant that, thru planetary drift, got drawn-in too close to the Sun whose heat gradually boiled-away its dense atmosphere.
Man you took me down a rabbit hole! I love your videos and am now subscribed. You put together the best images and video clips I've seen on YT. You deserve more exposure. Keep it up! I look forward to more remastered vids in this docuseries Thank you again
Everything I'll show you is real pictures or video taken by a probe. Next shot: top-down look on The Solar System :D But the audio quality is so much better, nice reupload. Keep up the good job, Astrum.
I don't care what anyone says, this is designed by someone also for our amusement. Either God or Aliens, one of the two. Theres no way all this happened by chance from a Big Bang. It's too perfectly designed.
Very interesting planet indeed. I don't care much about Mercury before but this video change my mind. Just as saying goes 'small but terrible'. 😆 (It's a compliment btw) - A frustrated Astronomer from PH 🇵🇭 😉
Fun fact: Because of it's speedy orbit and proximity to the Sun, Mercury is on average the closest planet to Earth. In fact, on average, it's the closest planet to all of the other planets.
I love Mercury. It's not as stunning to look at as our other planets, and it doesn't have the strange phenomenon of the gas giants, but it's more mysterious than some of the planets on the outer reaches of our solar system, thought it much closer to us than they are. I really wish we had photos from the surface of it as we do mars and venus
Estes vídeos são sempre interessantés!! É incrível de algum modo semelhante ao único satélite natural da Terra..A Lua e não tem satélites naturais ...é um planeta metálico e órfão e o mais pequeno!!! E tem uma história geológica enorme...Parece estático e um excêntrico....Como interior pode afectar este planeta?!!!
Me: Hasn't he done this video before? Sounds exactly the same except the audio is better recorded. Alex: I'm planning on remastering all of my the old planet videos. Me: Excellent!
@2:32 *spits out drink* WHAT!!! Jesus christ man, imagine being a planet and being tinier than 2 moons in the same solar system. Man I feel bad for ol Merc now, he's like one of those wojak memes with a happy mask on and a sad face underneath.
Another good one! 👍🏻😃 To this earthling that bit about the sun, from Mercury's vantage point, rising then going backwards a little before moving forward blew my mind. Can't imagine standing on Mercury's surface and seeing this. Whew! 🤪🤔🤯
@@TheDeadMeme27 I *imagine* Kev. Mill working his/her copy machine on a Saturday and being as salty AF. I imagine Kev. Mill petting his cat, on his copy machine.
Watching Earth from a distance and thinking of the facts about all these other planets, i wonder what made the critical difference in Earth being alive and the rest dead af. It seems that the magnetic field is of significant importance, but why is it so disproportionally strong in Earth? Something to do with the moon? Why do we have such a hot metal core?. High density very important also which is necessary for high gravity and therefore ability to retain atmosphere despite being so close to the sun....but Venus has atmosphere too.....eventually, what really makes earth special?
Thank you!!! I know it sounds crazy, but I have a 3yr old that is super advanced and loves this channel. When she wakes up in the middle of the night, I might put on an Astrum video to lull her back to sleep..... and then we watch 2-3 Astrum videos.... sometimes more. She has told me she is scared to go to Mars, but that she wants to bring people back to their families from Mars when she gets older. I don't know how to express my gratitude.... but thank you for the hard work you do to make these videos.
Probably not, but there is a theory that there was a 5th gas giant that spiralled into the inner solar system and collided with the Sun billions of years ago, which would explain many anomalies with the composition of the Sun.
Interesting video! Although i knew about the weird relationship between Mercury's orbit and rotation, the images presented here made it much more understandable. Thanks! :D
I believe I read recently where Mercury's 70% metal content has some people wondering if Mercury is the remaining core of what was once a much larger planet. Maybe the collision with the giant astroid blew everything else away 🤔??
Thank you Alex for your hard work I was hoping you'd get into Mercury's interactions with Jupiter... I read somewhere that these interactions will cause Mercury to enter into an orbital resonance with Jupiter which will eventually end up ejecting Mercury from the solar system.
Wonderful video. I find mercury to be this most beautiful planet in our solar system. Thank you for sharing all this information about a planet we rarely hear about!
I recently read about two other features of Mercury that are quite fascinating. Concerning its elliptical orbit, the axis of the ellipse also rotates around the Sun, its perihelion advancing about 9 minutes, 26 seconds per century, completing a full rotation, back to its original orientation and position every 227,000 years. Secondly, Mercury, on average, is closest to Earth compared to all other planets. While Venus does get the closest to Earth at times, it spends a lot of time much farther when it is on the other side of the Sun. Mercury, on the other hand, is never more than its distance from the Sun, 58 million km, plus Earth's distance, 150 km, making it, on average, the closest.
I remember in the Mars trilogy, Robinson hypothesised a Mercurian city running on rails around the equator, always staying at "dawn". Seems like a better prospect for settlement might be at the poles.
