The First Real Images Of Mercury - What We Found? 

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

Mercury looks more like a moon.

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 👍

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.

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 😊

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?

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.

Extremely well produced video!! Thanks!

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

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.

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

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!

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

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....

I really find your voice soothing. I clicked on the video because I do want to know but this narrative is out of this world. I am a subscriber now. Thank you very much, Sir.

Excellent production and narration. Very informative, thanks!

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

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!

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.

very informative and done without any unnecessary hype thank you!

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.

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 : ]

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

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

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

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

Very interesting and very educational. Thank You

Amazing detail. TY for the up.

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

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

Shout out to the camera man for being so brave

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

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."

Great Video :)

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

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!

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.

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….👍👍❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Beautiful images and incredibly informative

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

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!

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.

Utterly engaging. Enjoyed immensely.

Really nice video! Thank you!

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

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

Using standard measurements got my sub. Thank you.

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 RU-vid 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.

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

Merc-a-ree, really ?

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

Freddie Mercury

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.

Thank you for sharing🎉🎉🎉

totally awesome vid. Thank you much. (:

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

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.

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

The southern accent takes me back to science class in rural SC and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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!

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.

Wonderful and informative presentation. Well done.

Nicely done!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Well done video, thanks.

Very interesting. Thank you.

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?

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.

I just love the way the guy says "temperature".

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Mercury seems more like a stray moon without a planet.

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

Great presentation!

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

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?

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

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Wow real photos never shown in video. Good job

The first real artist rendition of Mercury 😂

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

Today I Learned! Subscibed!

Awesome video.

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

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

if I had a toddler I would put this guys voice on to put them to sleep.

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" ?

Real, like in mars “real” images..?

It never amazes me what GOD has created!

VERY nice...thanks

very awesome - cheers

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

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

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".

agree on space object removing silicate, non metallic layer. never before heard regarding the orbit shape by collision aftermath.

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