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:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39565-4
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acf219
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boninite
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240410-mercury-the-solar-systems-smallest-planet-may-once-have-been-as-large-as-earth
Other Mercury videos:
https://youtu.be/sesmvcWnUos
https://youtu.be/DAI0EVQKp44
https://youtu.be/7maaDmByDLI
#mercury #solarsystem #planets
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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Credit:
NASA/ESA/JAXA
Nicola Mari
Michael Carroll NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Sebastian Voltmer https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220503.html
Parro et al./CAB/SINC
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