The History Of Mercury: The Smallest And Most Hidden Planet

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Mercury is the first of our series of documentaries dedicated to the planets of the solar system, comprehensively describing their history and characteristics. It’s the innermost planet of our solar system—so close to the Sun that it’s almost always hidden in its blinding glare.

We won’t limit ourselves to describing the most well-known characteristics of this small planet. We’ll go beyond, exploring its peculiar orbit that confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, its strange relationship between day and year, its crater-riddled surface, and the surprising discoveries that continue to amaze astronomers.

Comprehensive means exactly this: a detailed account, rich with information and insights, that will lead you to see Mercury with new eyes—appreciating its complexity and hidden charm.

Mercury is a planet of contrasts and mysteries. The first world of our solar system, it is so close to the Sun, yet capable of hosting ice in its polar craters. So small it almost seems like a moon, yet so dense it harbors a disproportionately large metallic core. So slow in its rotation that a Mercurian day lasts two of its years, yet so quick in its orbit that it completes a full circuit around the Sun in just 88 Earth days.

Its surface, marked by countless craters, is an open book on the evolution of the solar system—a cosmic archive etched in rock, just waiting to be deciphered.
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Credits: Ron Miller, Mark A. Garlick / MarkGarlick.com ,Elon Musk/SpaceX/ Flickr
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00:00 Intro
00:58 Characteristics of Mercury
07:58 First Important Discovery
11:04 The Surface
19:00 Mercury Magnetic Field
21:14 Mercury Confirms General Relativity
24:20 The First Space Missions: Mariner 10 and Messenger
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