Why Is Reaching The Planets And Moons In The Solar System Complicated?
496Why is Mercury the most difficult planet to visit despite being close to Earth?
Even though Mercury is the second closest planet to Earth, this is also the most challenging planet to visit.
But why? Is it because it's too close to the sun? Because of its high temperatures, or will the composition of the planet have something to do with it? The answer will surprise you. The closest planet to Earth is Venus. Yes, you heard right, Venus. Although it is popularly said that the planet more like Earth is Mars, the closest is Venus because it is only 25 million miles from the Earth at its closest point. Does that mean that the second closest to Earth is Mars? No. The second closest planet to Earth is Mercury. Since the shortest distance between Earth and Mercury is 48 million mi, the average distance between Earth and Mars is about 55 million mi. During perihelion, the distance between Earth and Mars is drastically reduced to just 36 million mi. Yet, this only happens once every 26 months. So, most of the time, Mars is farther from Earth than Mercury. When humanity began exploring the solar systems planets with spacecraft, the first planet to be visited was Venus in 1962, followed by Mars in 1965 and Jupiter in 1973. We had to wait until 1974 for the Mariner space probe to visit the planet Mercury for the first time. Subsequently, in the following years, several space exploration probes were sent to study the farthest planets of the solar system in 1974, 1979, 1992, 1995, 2000, and recently in 2007.
Several missions have been launched to explore Mars and the outer planets and even study asteroids and faraway comets.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:41 The Most Challenging Planet
00:05:13 A Risky Route
00:07:38 Messenger Scan Probe
00:10:51 Why Is It So Difficult to Get to Mars?
00:23:14 Is it Challenging to Get to Jupiter?
00:37:46 Why Is It So Difficult To Get to Saturn?
00:50:03 Why Is It So Difficult To Get To Uranus?
00:58:46 NASA's New Priority
00:59:37 Why Neptune And Not Uranus?
01:07:56 A Unique Climate
01:23:12 New Horizons
01:25:16 Why Is It Challenging To Get To Proxima Centauri?
01:39:07 Why Is It So Hard To Get To Europa?
01:57:30 Why Should We Return To Titan?
02:01:13 Isn't It Tough To Go To Titan?
02:02:44 Why Is It So Difficult To Get To Enceladus?
02:15:35 The Largest Natural Satellite Of All
02:20:45 The Largest Water Reservoir In The Solar System
02:26:23 Why Is It So Difficult To Get To Callisto?
02:43:26 Is There Water Beneath The Surdace Of Ceres?
02:50:04 Is It Tough To Get To Triton?
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