I know! The addition of that ridiculous hat to that poor commentator's head was brilliantly done! A little cruel, perhaps but seamlessly done nonetheless.
J Wil - I'll second that, but I want to add in the crowd that say channels/videos/comments are 'underrated', which sounds at first like a complement, but what they're really saying is 'you cretins have failed to appreciate 'x' as fully as I do' which, apart from being something they can't possibly know, is annoying.
I can’t wrap my head around how we built something that can just detect chemicals, perform 8-9 year missions and withstand and survive the harshness of space and just magically know how planets were created, what it’s core looks like from millions of light years away etc. truly baffling, yet planet Earth’s ocean is still the greatest mystery of our solar system
This is a great post 👍🏾, i just turned 46 January 4 2022, I've always been fascinated with the universe, Haley's Comet makes it's way back around to 🌎 every 90 something years 🤔, what brings this comet back? The Sun is Earth's God.
@@apprentessjgooden2263 the sun's gravity is what keeps it in an orbit that every 80 years we get to see it so it probably takes 80 years to make 1 complete orbit around the sun.
And also they don't know exactly what cores are made of. They the chemical makeups and pressures and can make a good assumption. Like the gas giants don't have a core like earth but saturn they think is exotic ices and some other things. Look into the liquid metallic hydrogen oceans in jupiter and saturn. It's not actually an ocean like that but the gasses have so much heat and pressure it changes the entire structures of elements. I think in Neptune or maybe Uranus they guess it may rain diamonds and have diamonds floating like icebergs cause the carbon had so much heat and pressure. The universe is simply amazing
@@joshuabrunetta4656 That’s what annoyed me about the US broadcast of this series. I should import the UK dvds cause I’d like to rewatch with the original narration.
Am I smarter than a 5th grader if the 1st thing I thought of when they said "how did it end up so close to the sun & made almost entirely out of metal?" was, "it probably collided with another planet." ?
It would be really cool to see a model of the early solar system. You'd have the proto-planets that collided with the early Earth and Neptune still around, Neptune wouldn't have grabbed Triton yet, Saturn would have no rings, Jupiter would be closer to the sun, there would be that theorietical extra planet that escaped the Sun's gravity entirely....
This is beautiful and it does give you a sense of scale of the eight planets. Putting the asteroid belt there, and indicating the incredible width of that belt between Mars and Jupiter, would have been nice. Also, the suggestion that Neptune is the edge of the Solar System is incorrect. The distance from the Sun to Earth is 1 Astronomical Unit (AU). The distance from the Sun to Neptune is 30 AU. At Neptune begins the Kuiper Belt of comets. It's very wide, too. All that stuff orbits the Sun on a fairly flat plane. A bit beyond the Kuiper Belt is the Heliopause. This is where the Solar Wind ends. The solar wind is plasma emitted from the Sun's Corona, its outermost layer. That solar wind stretches about 123 AU from the Sun, another 90 AU beyond Neptune, at 30 AU. Then you enter interstellar space, which is still not the end of the Solar System. You cross that space for somewhere between another 880-1,880 AU. That's right, 1 AU to Earth. 30 AU to Neptune. 123 AU to Interstellar Space. And another 880-1,880 AU to...the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is a collection of more comets which are out there in a sphere around the entire solar system. The Oort Cloud is hypothetical, but pretty much all astrophysicists and astronomers agree that it's there, because Oort Clouds exist around other socarl systems, and because you need an Oort Cloud to feed the Kuiper Belt, which in turn sends comets into the inner planet space inside the Asteroid Belt. Like the comets that pass or fall into Earth. Without the Oort Cloud feeding the Kuiper Belt, the Kuiper Belt would have run out of comets long, long ago. And it didn't. Well, that Oort Cloud then extends another 50,000 to 100,000 AU farther out into space. The outside of the Oort Cloud is where the SOLAR SYSTEM ENDS. That's where the Sun's gravitational pull runs out. So, from the Sun to Earth is 1 AU, to Neptune is 30 AU, and out of the Solar System is 50,000 to 100,000 AU THAT'S how big the Solar System is. And 1 AU from the Sun to the Earth is 93 million miles. I haven't done the math, but that map of the Solar System isn't 7 miles. It's about the size of the U.S. And that's just our tiny little solar system in a galaxy witha hundred billion stars. As Douglas Adams said in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "space is really big."
Actually did some math on this once. If you scaled the whole solar system down, so that one AU = one Centimeter, sun would be roughly as big as large spec of dust. The earth would be one centimeter away from it, that’s a given. Pluto would be 30-49.3 centimeters away. The farthest edge of the Oort Cloud would be one kilometer away. And that distance, from the sun to the edge of the cloud, would be one fourth the distance needed to reach our closest neighboring star, roughly four kilometers away. May not seem like much, but thinking about it from the perspective of the large spec of dust, really makes you appreciate how massive that distance translates to in real life.
That sounds like a great idea, but now knowing the truth, or being somewhat closer to it, it sounds completely ridiculous. Interesting how a few small details can completely change a story.
@Orange Fort I have no idea but my guess is that the moon has more because asteroids/meteors may burn up much more before reaching mercury; the earth attracts more objects to the moon's direction because it has more mass than mercury, less objects are between outer asteroids/meteors and the moon compared with mercury, making them act as a shield of sorts, and mercury is denser so impacts are smaller than they would be on the moon.
@@419 - Yes, you are correct - Mercury would have the last in line to be slammed by the great bombardments, apparently caused by Jupiter's disruption of the Asteroid Belt.
It makes sense to me that a planet would form closer to the sun with a higher proportion of the heavy elements. The t tauri phase would have had more effect on the volatiles by percentage. I cannot explain the orbit though.
I think the problem was more so how small of a rocky crust it has? It having a big metal core makes sense but it’s crust was much thinner than expected.
I think that idea holds a great deal of plausibility. The odd orbit could be explained by either early impacts or the influence of early protoplanets gravitational fields
I think its because Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere, and it has a really slow rotation having to take 59 Earth days just for one Mercury day. This means that the dark side freezes over and the light side gets constantly scorched, and with no atmosphere to distribute the Sun's heat across the planet.
@@fisher1634 - Bingo. However, Mercury does rotate very slowly, once every 176 days in relation to the Sun, so that every part of Mercury gets exposed to the Sun sometimes and every part is in shadow sometimes.
I wonder how it would show on the planet that shoved Mercury. Could we observe the mark Mercury left? I think Earth's plate tectonics could wipe the evidence away, so maybe it was Earth indeed.
@@embosspl this particular track is not available on Spotify but there are few awesome tracks available from same series..like specks in the sun... Pluto's heart.. planetary forces.. star power.
It's incredible that the film footage that's 4.5 billion years old has been preserved. I'm speechless! Mercury could have been just like Earth, where water appeared and life just spontaneously started. Incredible!
Even if Mercury was in Goldie lock zone it could not be able to sustain life, because it's so small it doesn't have strong enough Gravity to hold the atmosphere around it. The atmosphere will simply leake into space, and due to its weak gravity, the Magnetic field would also be weak and so the solar radiation could easily pass through atmosphere and kill life.
I remember seeing a documentary where they hypothesized that Mercury might be chock full of gold because it formed so close to the sun that it captured a lot of the heavy elements. Well, this video blows that theory out of the water. Guess I'll put away that Reynolds Wrap mining suit I've been working on. 😕
I imagine the habitable zone on Mercury, because it is tidally locked, will be a thin ring between the scorched side that faces the Sun and the cold, dead side that faces away from the Sun. A sort of a forever twilight zone where the temperature is just right. I wonder if there’s a planet out there somewhere that harbours life in this way.
the beauty of the universe is the absence of purpose we are here because a series of random happenings that the universe made, how awesome it is? so much life and experiences here on earth came from sheer luck in this vast cosmos
@@sarauniyaGH the idea of everything having a purpose is a human concept, we always want to give simbolism and purpose for every event, even tho they are in essence just consequences from other events that themselves are just consequences and so on
I had realized I had never knowingly seen Mercury, so last year, using an online star map, I found where it would be.. I had to wait until April, so I marked it down, then when the day came, I went to our local lake.. cuz it hugs the setting sun and is only visible for a short time at sunset or sunrise.. (but I like to sleep in).. So easy to do… just look up any daily star chart it should help you out..
I had the same thought. Theory that something big crashed into Earth to create material to create such a large moon we have has been around for a very long time. Perhaps that large body that hit Earth was Mercury, perhaps it wasn't Mercury that hit Earth but Earth that hit Mercury.
Absolutely not. OG Mercury didn't have enough material to make a Moon-sized object and still have its current size left over, I don't think that's even physically possible for gravitational reasons, and Theia wasn't even from the inner solar system.
I agree with this theory of brushing against another embryo and Mercury, it may even explain why Mercury spins so slow. Mercury may have even hit another object at the distance of Mercury’s far point from the Sun explaining the elliptical orbit and a thing I found with Mercury’s map if you look closely at the west part of Mercury’s map you can see a huge shifted piece of Mercury’s crust that could have been formed by a collision with a small embryo. Edit: The Shifted Mercury crust is most visible in the map of Mercury TerraGenesis uses.
So you're telling me if Mercury was actually formed near Earth, it could have probably been the same as Earth where it can actually accomodate some sort of life form? I also kinda read an ancient planet called Theia that collided with Earth. I'm now kinda imagining what if Theia was actually Mercury and the debris left due to collision was from Mercury that's why we have our Moon today?
And I think there's a possibility that Mercury was also the caused for Venus' weird rotation. As Mercury travels closer to the Sun, Mercury knocks Venus on its side, a force so strong enough to permanently altered Venus' rotation to what it will become today.
This is partly true. A planet which we named "Theia" which was roughly the size of Mars, hit the Earth with a glancing blow and the moon formed out of the debris. But it wasn't Mercury. It's only a hypothesis though it's not really something we could ever prove for sure. But we have round identical rocks on the Moon and the Earth, so the theory does hold up in terms of what we've found so far. It's the most widely accepted theory amongst the science community, at least in my experience.
@@KissMyFatAxe The theory of how the Moon came about is well known but where is this planet Theia now? Where has it gone after hitting Earth? Is it possible that Mercury is actually Theia? A "planet' the size of Mars did not just vanished after a collision. It would continue going around the Sun albeit a slightly different orbit. Our Earth did just that and is still a member of the Solar System but planet Theia is nowhere to be found.
@@dannyleung2796 it didn´t collide and continue going around the sun , the planet that provided most of the mass for the formation of Earth and Theia collided and fused together becoming the Early Earth , the leftovers became the moon
Imagination could lead us the path that we've never imagined . Just think of those brilliant minds that studied those craters and gave birth to the most important question about Mercury .
Forgot I was subscribed to this channel, it's been so long since it uploaded. Also, is the narrator Zachary Quinto? I'm imagining Invincible's Robot narrating this. Really nice production values. I'd like to watch the whole thing.
If Mercury is a collision remnant then it’s possible if formed in the asteroid belt. And it’s crust form part of the asteroid belt. Ceres is a remnant from this collision.
Mercury: Hit another larger planet... Glancing blow... Lost a lot of rock... Theia: Hit another larger planet... Glancing blow... Lost a lot of rock... HMMMMMMMMMMM
Honest question. How can they tell what material makes up the planets core and how do they collect chemical data from below the surface?! I understand how they gather the data on the surface. But how do they collect data from the core?! Depth, chemical make up, stuff like that?! Especially if no probe has actually landed on the planet?!
Didnt the video say they probed the surface? I remember in school that a lot of these findings are theories only based on facts/findings on Earth. So they can always be wrong. For example, limestone patterns are eroded by water over time. If they see similar features elsewhere they will claim similar theory.
Spectroscopy and gravitational dynamics, mostly. That and it's got a disproportionately large magnetic field, which suggests a disproportionately large core made of iron and nickel (since iron and nickel are some of the only ferromagnetic elements and they're very common).
The fact that Mercury is just the exposed core of a former planet, think of it like the flesh and muscle of the human body removed, leaving only the skeleton behind. Eerily fascinating.
Hi, I think you would have come across this point, but would like to state it. As you are saying that planet Mercury is predominantly made up of Metal, could there be a chance that the Sun's magnetic field might have dragged Mercury to it's latest co-ordinates. I imagine that since Mercury is a dense but small planet compared to the rest, the Sun could have effortlessly pulled the planet. Anybody have any suggestion?
It could have been a whole host of different scenarios. Remember that the inner Solar System was very crowded; Mars-sized objects such as "Thiea" smashed into the inner planets, changing orbital paths, tilt of axis, rotation speeds, etc., and such objects would later cause Jupiter and Saturn to go into a 2:1 resonance that caused Neptune, which possibly formed in between Saturn and Uranus, to migrate to it's current orbit, and in the process created the Oort Cloud, sent an Earth-sized object into Uranus, causing it to be tilted 98° from it's orbital plane, banishing the hypothetical "Planet 9" to the Scattered Disk located between the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, as well as capturing both Triton and Nereid in the process.
I'm not just convinced with the last sentence. Life can thrive in so called impossible situations, under impossible conditions. Mercury may have some or other form of life, still not known to us.
no, its simply too close that even elements evaporate under the intense heat (imagine an iron ball right in front of a blowtorch) not to mention it doesnt have any stable atmosphere meaning it is impossible for any progenitors of life
This is so fascinating. Id rather spend my whole life studying about our solar system than rotting at my desk doing accounts 😩
Then become an astrophysicist
@@matthewviramontes3131 Simple. Not your solution, you.
Studying both CA and CMA here🥵
I feel the same. I really suck at math though so I think a career in that area isn't going to happen ever
@@forrestl5597 you*
When I woke up this morning, I was not expecting to feel bad for the planet Mercury. Yet here we are.
And now us humans are also littering on the planet Mercury.
@@eustab.anas-mann9510 it’s a rock in space. Shut up.
@@megamanhikari8095 So is planet Earth. Isn't it?
Almost like watching an anime antagonist’s back story
I learned more about Mercury in this 10 minute video than I have in a lifetime
@Satyam 12A aa wrong but thanks for playing
I heard about a crater with a mountainous region opposite it on Mercury.
@Satyam 12A aa if schools were to teach this in class he wouldnt have to
You learned nothing. These people are all Liberals.
@@cosmic9988 why would school teach about this thou, besides something like astronomy class?
Let's take a moment to appreciate the beautiful animations used in this documentary. IT'S AWESOME, also the narration fit so wonderfully.
CGI cuz space is fake
I know! The addition of that ridiculous hat to that poor commentator's head was brilliantly done! A little cruel, perhaps but seamlessly done nonetheless.
Let's take a moment to unify against the tired and annoying "Let's take a moment" prefix.
J Wil - I'll second that, but I want to add in the crowd that say channels/videos/comments are 'underrated', which sounds at first like a complement, but what they're really saying is 'you cretins have failed to appreciate 'x' as fully as I do' which, apart from being something they can't possibly know, is annoying.
i appreciate thanking the animations instead of the “cameraman” like most clowns
Finally this channel is now Alive
Empire of the Sun
They've improved their documentary a lot.
@@jeffreycedenotorres6875 And still they don't make sense! 😎
I've recently discovered them, this little series is amazing, hope to find/see more, Zachary Quinto is always a welcome voice also.
@Group JW Productions ya troll lol.
They fr narrates Mercury's story like the backstory of a main character in a drama show
I can’t wrap my head around how we built something that can just detect chemicals, perform 8-9 year missions and withstand and survive the harshness of space and just magically know how planets were created, what it’s core looks like from millions of light years away etc. truly baffling, yet planet Earth’s ocean is still the greatest mystery of our solar system
Because it's BS LOL
8 or 9 years. Voyager has been flying through space for near 47 years. Some are nuclear powered. Actually both voyagers have been 45 plus years
This is a great post 👍🏾, i just turned 46 January 4 2022, I've always been fascinated with the universe, Haley's Comet makes it's way back around to 🌎 every 90 something years 🤔, what brings this comet back? The Sun is Earth's God.
@@apprentessjgooden2263 the sun's gravity is what keeps it in an orbit that every 80 years we get to see it so it probably takes 80 years to make 1 complete orbit around the sun.
And also they don't know exactly what cores are made of. They the chemical makeups and pressures and can make a good assumption. Like the gas giants don't have a core like earth but saturn they think is exotic ices and some other things. Look into the liquid metallic hydrogen oceans in jupiter and saturn. It's not actually an ocean like that but the gasses have so much heat and pressure it changes the entire structures of elements. I think in Neptune or maybe Uranus they guess it may rain diamonds and have diamonds floating like icebergs cause the carbon had so much heat and pressure. The universe is simply amazing
Please give your VFX team more money. That animation of Mercury colliding with another planet was astounding
It’s astounding because it was real. The cameraman followed mercury and stood on it till the probe crashed.
The experts, the animations, the narration... All top notch.
In BBC land most of the world's scientific experts are American women.
@@jimbocho660 why does it matter? Experts are experts lol
@@drmantistoboggan2870 yet cant solve ppls deaths lmaooo but space we cant touch
@@itachi1165 yeah um wtf are you talking about
@@drmantistoboggan2870 cuz ppl say this about space yet nothing in oceans or finding ppls killers lol
I feel like Zachary Quinto narrating this makes me feel like it's Spock teaching some Starfleet cadets about the planets
I was about to say, that sounds like the J.J. Abrams, Spock.
Brain Cox did a much better job tbh
I thought I recognised that voice
@@joshuabrunetta4656 That’s what annoyed me about the US broadcast of this series. I should import the UK dvds cause I’d like to rewatch with the original narration.
Logical
Am I smarter than a 5th grader if the 1st thing I thought of when they said "how did it end up so close to the sun & made almost entirely out of metal?" was, "it probably collided with another planet." ?
Yeah. I was thinking it was a lot larger. And what we see today is just a little more than the core.
It was always close to the sun because God said so
this the most beautiful documentary that I've ever seen.
please accept my thanks for posting this.
MOREEE
I could watch planets smashing into each other in this epic detail ALL DAY it's so cool!
Would you like it if something smashed into Uranus?
🤣😂🤣🤣so unexpected
@@matthewviramontes3131 Something already smashed into it now it's on it's side :P
@@matthewviramontes3131 Actually yes, it's been far too long lol
It would be really cool to see a model of the early solar system. You'd have the proto-planets that collided with the early Earth and Neptune still around, Neptune wouldn't have grabbed Triton yet, Saturn would have no rings, Jupiter would be closer to the sun, there would be that theorietical extra planet that escaped the Sun's gravity entirely....
Kudos to the camerateam capturing the impact of the probe in Mercury.
A beautiful documentary 🥰 Loved it!!!
This is beautiful and it does give you a sense of scale of the eight planets. Putting the asteroid belt there, and indicating the incredible width of that belt between Mars and Jupiter, would have been nice. Also, the suggestion that Neptune is the edge of the Solar System is incorrect. The distance from the Sun to Earth is 1 Astronomical Unit (AU). The distance from the Sun to Neptune is 30 AU. At Neptune begins the Kuiper Belt of comets. It's very wide, too. All that stuff orbits the Sun on a fairly flat plane. A bit beyond the Kuiper Belt is the Heliopause. This is where the Solar Wind ends. The solar wind is plasma emitted from the Sun's Corona, its outermost layer. That solar wind stretches about 123 AU from the Sun, another 90 AU beyond Neptune, at 30 AU. Then you enter interstellar space, which is still not the end of the Solar System. You cross that space for somewhere between another 880-1,880 AU. That's right, 1 AU to Earth. 30 AU to Neptune. 123 AU to Interstellar Space. And another 880-1,880 AU to...the Oort Cloud.
The Oort Cloud is a collection of more comets which are out there in a sphere around the entire solar system. The Oort Cloud is hypothetical, but pretty much all astrophysicists and astronomers agree that it's there, because Oort Clouds exist around other socarl systems, and because you need an Oort Cloud to feed the Kuiper Belt, which in turn sends comets into the inner planet space inside the Asteroid Belt. Like the comets that pass or fall into Earth. Without the Oort Cloud feeding the Kuiper Belt, the Kuiper Belt would have run out of comets long, long ago. And it didn't. Well, that Oort Cloud then extends another 50,000 to 100,000 AU farther out into space.
The outside of the Oort Cloud is where the SOLAR SYSTEM ENDS. That's where the Sun's gravitational pull runs out. So, from the Sun to Earth is 1 AU, to Neptune is 30 AU, and out of the Solar System is 50,000 to 100,000 AU THAT'S how big the Solar System is. And 1 AU from the Sun to the Earth is 93 million miles. I haven't done the math, but that map of the Solar System isn't 7 miles. It's about the size of the U.S. And that's just our tiny little solar system in a galaxy witha hundred billion stars. As Douglas Adams said in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "space is really big."
Don’t forget my baby Pluto haha
Actually did some math on this once. If you scaled the whole solar system down, so that one AU = one Centimeter, sun would be roughly as big as large spec of dust. The earth would be one centimeter away from it, that’s a given. Pluto would be 30-49.3 centimeters away. The farthest edge of the Oort Cloud would be one kilometer away. And that distance, from the sun to the edge of the cloud, would be one fourth the distance needed to reach our closest neighboring star, roughly four kilometers away. May not seem like much, but thinking about it from the perspective of the large spec of dust, really makes you appreciate how massive that distance translates to in real life.
Anyone knows the song/music/soundtrack used throughout the intro or first part of the video ? 1:14
I’m truly in love with this channel now
Great work. Make more like this please
huge respect for the cameraman that risked his life to record the last moment of Messenger while standing on a scorching planet
Huge responsibility for the originality
Cringe
Huge respect, getting us clearer videos
I always thought mercury was the remnant of a gas giant that had its atmosphere sucked away by the sun, leaving only its iron core.
That sounds like a great idea, but now knowing the truth, or being somewhat closer to it, it sounds completely ridiculous. Interesting how a few small details can completely change a story.
@Orange Fort I have no idea but my guess is that the moon has more because asteroids/meteors may burn up much more before reaching mercury; the earth attracts more objects to the moon's direction because it has more mass than mercury, less objects are between outer asteroids/meteors and the moon compared with mercury, making them act as a shield of sorts, and mercury is denser so impacts are smaller than they would be on the moon.
@@419 - Yes, you are correct - Mercury would have the last in line to be slammed by the great bombardments, apparently caused by Jupiter's disruption of the Asteroid Belt.
Is that what happened to Uranus ?
Only 50,000 views? Dude, this is the most educational, interesting, simplest best thing right now
Ten days later, 285k views
373k views
@@commentsthatwillannoyyou9873 love it!
@@nikkoracelabut 2 years later less than 1 mill views?
America is very ignorant and uneducated.
This channel give me so much…idk happiness? Joy? Idk but i loved every second of these vdos
The cameraman had the most sacrificial job of all. I salute you!
Its animations🙄I know it's a joke but we are serious here so.
@@purmaa6520 you’re the only one that can’t take a joke without being a buzzkill
@@purmaa6520 dont be a buzzkill
@@purmaa6520 Seriously, it's a joke
@@hightowerzion Nnonl
I love these videos. Our solar system holds so many stories....
It makes sense to me that a planet would form closer to the sun with a higher proportion of the heavy elements. The t tauri phase would have had more effect on the volatiles by percentage. I cannot explain the orbit though.
I think the problem was more so how small of a rocky crust it has? It having a big metal core makes sense but it’s crust was much thinner than expected.
I think that idea holds a great deal of plausibility. The odd orbit could be explained by either early impacts or the influence of early protoplanets gravitational fields
Sorry is bad idea for exoplanet is planet born baby
Could the planet that mercury grazed up against. be Venus? Perhaps that would explain why Venus rotate slowly backwards?
Ye
What about the moon and it’s massive crater on the bottom of it?
Makes sense that it could have been Venus.
This explains how Mercury and Venus formed: th-cam.com/video/CM0Hi0YwAJA/w-d-xo.html
I say it hit us. I mean we were hit by another ball of flaming rocks (planet embryo) which caused enough debris to create the moon
Could you guys by any chance tell us what music you use in the background, it sounds like a lovely piece
Agreed
It might have been interesting to mention the extreme cold of Mercury's dark side.
Right. That's the most interesting thing to me. How something so close to the sun can have negative degree temperatures 🌡
And now, you've mentioned it. Case closed.
I think its because Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere, and it has a really slow rotation having to take 59 Earth days just for one Mercury day. This means that the dark side freezes over and the light side gets constantly scorched, and with no atmosphere to distribute the Sun's heat across the planet.
@@fisher1634 - Bingo.
However, Mercury does rotate very slowly, once every 176 days in relation to the Sun, so that every part of Mercury gets exposed to the Sun sometimes and every part is in shadow sometimes.
What about the extreme cold of Uranus ?
I love both the British and US version of this series. Brian Cox is amazing, but so is Zachary Quinto’s narration in this
I knew it! I knew it was the bad guy from heroes narrating this..🤣🤣
In my language Mercury has the coolest nickname in all of solar system object, "The Frozen Furnace".
That was my favourite Dark Souls level. 😀
I should put that in my about page…
@@paulgibbon5991what about Uranus ?
@@luisfernando5998you love UrAnus.
I've been waiting for you.
Subscribed!
I cant believe how good the camera man was who filmed this - He went so far and so many dangerous places
This joke is getting boring
Wonderful work by the cameraman who took all videos of messenger satellite and mercury together😂
What song is at 0:51
Great job guys sending love from the Philippines 🇵🇭
It's sad to see Messenger ending in this way after its mission.
My birthday again
Everything is me,
Why
better than floating in space until the sun goes red giant on it.
La meilleure chaîne sur youtube!!!! HABEMOS BBC REELS
I think Mercury was once the core of a gas giant, I think that's the only way to explain its density.
It isn't. Mercury's composition and orbital dynamics are extremely inconsistent with the idea of it being a gas giant core.
A fair postulation, I presume. That would explain a few things about the core
Props to the crew who filmed on site
I wonder if the young Earth may have been partially responsible for Mercury's current position.
I’ve read in some scientific articles that a lot of scientist believe that the large body that collided with earth to form the moon was mercury
I wonder how it would show on the planet that shoved Mercury. Could we observe the mark Mercury left? I think Earth's plate tectonics could wipe the evidence away, so maybe it was Earth indeed.
From 5:59 to 6:25 what is the NAME of that background/song MUSIC 🎶 🎵 🎼 💿 ?
Planetary forces.. on Spotify
Man it’s cool to think that even now, something humans made on earth is lying on Mercury! Crazy
We are slowly but surely stepping into the sky above. Leaving our "fingerprints" on the world outside of our world.
Couldn't hear anything because of the background music
This story was beautiful
What about the story of Uranus ?
@@luisfernando5998full of gas.
Mercury: Hi
Scientists: Why are you like this?
I love these BBC videos
it's so poetic 😩
I realized five minutes in that a very handsome man is narrating.
The collision must have slowed it down so much it fell into a much closer orbit.
Perhaps the other planetary embryo that the young Mercury hit was Venus. This might also explain Venus' very slow, retrograde rotation as well.
The narrator's voice is sth else 😍😍
Props to the cameraman who flew alongside Mariner for years to capture this footage for us 🙌❤
What's the music at 0:32?
It's from 1st episode when they introduce Mercury mission
@@sureshpanchal4068 I know but can the whole track be found.
@@embosspl this particular track is not available on Spotify but there are few awesome tracks available from same series..like specks in the sun... Pluto's heart.. planetary forces.. star power.
It's incredible that the film footage that's 4.5 billion years old has been preserved. I'm speechless! Mercury could have been just like Earth, where water appeared and life just spontaneously started. Incredible!
Whats the music at 1:54
Even if Mercury was in Goldie lock zone it could not be able to sustain life, because it's so small it doesn't have strong enough Gravity to hold the atmosphere around it. The atmosphere will simply leake into space, and due to its weak gravity, the Magnetic field would also be weak and so the solar radiation could easily pass through atmosphere and kill life.
Yeah just like what happened to mars
Titan is like the exact same size as Mercury pretty much, yet it has huge amounts of atmosphere, so I don't think size alone is a determining factor
I remember seeing a documentary where they hypothesized that Mercury might be chock full of gold because it formed so close to the sun that it captured a lot of the heavy elements. Well, this video blows that theory out of the water. Guess I'll put away that Reynolds Wrap mining suit I've been working on. 😕
I imagine the habitable zone on Mercury, because it is tidally locked, will be a thin ring between the scorched side that faces the Sun and the cold, dead side that faces away from the Sun. A sort of a forever twilight zone where the temperature is just right. I wonder if there’s a planet out there somewhere that harbours life in this way.
There is no habitable zone on mercury
@@yeshuasage3724 that's just from our humans standard of life.. we have no clue of other life forms who might only survive in extreme heat or cold.
It might be tardigrades
@@yeshuasage3724 Depends on your habitable definition i guess. 😂
There's this one hypothetical planet called Aurelia. It's tidally locked, very interesting watch though.
I enjoyed this, thank you!
I believe every planet has a purpose… and that was to help one planet to sustain life. And that ended up being the planet we call earth.
the beauty of the universe is the absence of purpose
we are here because a series of random happenings that the universe made, how awesome it is? so much life and experiences here on earth came from sheer luck in this vast cosmos
Try again
@@juandominguez5885 anyways like I said. All planets have a purpose. In my opinion and observation
@@guifdcanalli an innumerable amount of complexities as *sheer luck* ?? Lol I don't think so. For every creation there is a creator.
@@sarauniyaGH the idea of everything having a purpose is a human concept, we always want to give simbolism and purpose for every event, even tho they are in essence just consequences from other events that themselves are just consequences and so on
RIP little Messenger, you did good 🛰️
The bgm of messages is so beautiful!!!
Who can tell me the name?
No idea but it is from the 1st episode of the series "The planets"
I love these videos
You don’t have new theories, you have new hypothesis. There’s a very big difference in science.
Say it again for the scientists in the back!
I had realized I had never knowingly seen Mercury, so last year, using an online star map, I found where it would be.. I had to wait until April, so I marked it down, then when the day came, I went to our local lake.. cuz it hugs the setting sun and is only visible for a short time at sunset or sunrise.. (but I like to sleep in)..
So easy to do… just look up any daily star chart it should help you out..
Could it be that Mercury crashed into Earth, with its crust forming the Moon and then falling towards the Sun?
I had the same thought. Theory that something big crashed into Earth to create material to create such a large moon we have has been around for a very long time. Perhaps that large body that hit Earth was Mercury, perhaps it wasn't Mercury that hit Earth but Earth that hit Mercury.
Not really
But the chemistry of Mercury and the moon's crust are different, so it is very unlikely that mercury hit earth and formed the moon
Absolutely not. OG Mercury didn't have enough material to make a Moon-sized object and still have its current size left over, I don't think that's even physically possible for gravitational reasons, and Theia wasn't even from the inner solar system.
@@Alte.Kameraden we wouldnt here, thats a stupid thought. Doesn't explain humans, good and evil animals, idiots come with stupid ridiculous theories.
Big hug
I agree with this theory of brushing against another embryo and Mercury, it may even explain why Mercury spins so slow.
Mercury may have even hit another object at the distance of Mercury’s far point from the Sun explaining the elliptical orbit and a thing I found with Mercury’s map if you look closely at the west part of Mercury’s map you can see a huge shifted piece of Mercury’s crust that could have been formed by a collision with a small embryo.
Edit: The Shifted Mercury crust is most visible in the map of Mercury TerraGenesis uses.
ayyy fellow TerraGenesis player
Thanks to camera man for a beautiful clip
So you're telling me if Mercury was actually formed near Earth, it could have probably been the same as Earth where it can actually accomodate some sort of life form? I also kinda read an ancient planet called Theia that collided with Earth. I'm now kinda imagining what if Theia was actually Mercury and the debris left due to collision was from Mercury that's why we have our Moon today?
And I think there's a possibility that Mercury was also the caused for Venus' weird rotation. As Mercury travels closer to the Sun, Mercury knocks Venus on its side, a force so strong enough to permanently altered Venus' rotation to what it will become today.
@@Isaac-gh5ku venus is not on his side that uranus
What if Theia was the planet that pushed mercury??
@@RicardoVanHouten Venus’s is reversed, not even sideways.
The Moon and mercury surface also look very similar
What a beautiful rendition So many questions
Wouldn't it have approached from the opposite side of the planet to shed its inertia?
This program is best enjoyed while reading the book of the same title. 😃
Early Mercury collided with Earth, lost its crust and changed course toward the Sun while Earth lost a chunk that has later become the moon?
Or Mars
This is partly true. A planet which we named "Theia" which was roughly the size of Mars, hit the Earth with a glancing blow and the moon formed out of the debris. But it wasn't Mercury.
It's only a hypothesis though it's not really something we could ever prove for sure. But we have round identical rocks on the Moon and the Earth, so the theory does hold up in terms of what we've found so far. It's the most widely accepted theory amongst the science community, at least in my experience.
@@KissMyFatAxe The theory of how the Moon came about is well known but where is this planet Theia now? Where has it gone after hitting Earth? Is it possible that Mercury is actually Theia?
A "planet' the size of Mars did not just vanished after a collision. It would continue going around the Sun albeit a slightly different orbit. Our Earth did just that and is still a member of the Solar System but planet Theia is nowhere to be found.
@@dannyleung2796 it didn´t collide and continue going around the sun , the planet that provided most of the mass for the formation of Earth and Theia collided and fused together becoming the Early Earth , the leftovers became the moon
@@dannyleung2796 the debris likely forked a ring around Earth, and over time they crashed together and combined to form the moon. Theia, is the moon.
A beautiful and mysterious planet
Wayyy more better than what I would learn in science class
My heart is bleeding for your "science class"
Anyone else slowly realize that this narrator (Zachary Quinto) also voices Robot from Invinsible?
Imagination could lead us the path that we've never imagined . Just think of those brilliant minds that studied those craters and gave birth to the most important question about Mercury .
Poor Mercury. Needs a hug. xx
What about Uranus ?
@@luisfernando5998 Umm. Oh my. What would you suggest? Would a hug be sufficient? I can tell you now it does need a lot of loving and caring for !
@@Greenpoloboy3 lol maybe need some rings first get a ring job !
@@luisfernando5998 That sounds a bit messy. Hard to get a volunteer I bet for that
@@Greenpoloboy3 🤣🤣🤣 …. We need to find an asstranaut
Forgot I was subscribed to this channel, it's been so long since it uploaded.
Also, is the narrator Zachary Quinto? I'm imagining Invincible's Robot narrating this.
Really nice production values. I'd like to watch the whole thing.
apparently it is Zachary Quinto. Or at least he narrates the US version.
thanks for video ❤
What if Mercury is actually Theia and thats why the moon looks so similar.
it can’t be theia
theia merged with earth thats why we have a metal core and the highest planet density
@@vinzer72frie doesn’t every planet have a metal core?
No.
@@brightax7502 I meant to say a big one for our size also we have metal structures in the lower mantle which are theia's remnants
Fun fact, messenger had to also complete 5 flybies of the Cameraman.
If Mercury is a collision remnant then it’s possible if formed in the asteroid belt. And it’s crust form part of the asteroid belt. Ceres is a remnant from this collision.
BBC earth's content, on TH-cam or TV, has no parallels
They should ask freddy
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@zacheryschmidt2611 😃😃
Poetic, the narration is.
Mercury:
Hit another larger planet...
Glancing blow...
Lost a lot of rock...
Theia:
Hit another larger planet...
Glancing blow...
Lost a lot of rock...
HMMMMMMMMMMM
Thank you mercury planet for helping me financially, I am truly grateful.
Honest question. How can they tell what material makes up the planets core and how do they collect chemical data from below the surface?! I understand how they gather the data on the surface. But how do they collect data from the core?! Depth, chemical make up, stuff like that?! Especially if no probe has actually landed on the planet?!
Anyone know? It's a honest question.
Didnt the video say they probed the surface? I remember in school that a lot of these findings are theories only based on facts/findings on Earth. So they can always be wrong. For example, limestone patterns are eroded by water over time. If they see similar features elsewhere they will claim similar theory.
Samples from the surface of the planet
Temperature propagation to the surface can be a factor. At least that's what i think
Spectroscopy and gravitational dynamics, mostly. That and it's got a disproportionately large magnetic field, which suggests a disproportionately large core made of iron and nickel (since iron and nickel are some of the only ferromagnetic elements and they're very common).
wow great episode
BBC got better cgi than marvel movies xD
The fact that Mercury is just the exposed core of a former planet, think of it like the flesh and muscle of the human body removed, leaving only the skeleton behind. Eerily fascinating.
Hi, I think you would have come across this point, but would like to state it. As you are saying that planet Mercury is predominantly made up of Metal, could there be a chance that the Sun's magnetic field might have dragged Mercury to it's latest co-ordinates. I imagine that since Mercury is a dense but small planet compared to the rest, the Sun could have effortlessly pulled the planet. Anybody have any suggestion?
It could have been a whole host of different scenarios. Remember that the inner Solar System was very crowded; Mars-sized objects such as "Thiea" smashed into the inner planets, changing orbital paths, tilt of axis, rotation speeds, etc., and such objects would later cause Jupiter and Saturn to go into a 2:1 resonance that caused Neptune, which possibly formed in between Saturn and Uranus, to migrate to it's current orbit, and in the process created the Oort Cloud, sent an Earth-sized object into Uranus, causing it to be tilted 98° from it's orbital plane, banishing the hypothetical "Planet 9" to the Scattered Disk located between the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, as well as capturing both Triton and Nereid in the process.
@@rwboa22 Thankyou! You’re very knowledgeable on this subject…🌟
Does anyone know if those clips are from a full documentary?
When, some celestials played planets like marble.
😁
Best video of my life 😮
I'm not just convinced with the last sentence. Life can thrive in so called impossible situations, under impossible conditions. Mercury may have some or other form of life, still not known to us.
no, its simply too close that even elements evaporate under the intense heat (imagine an iron ball right in front of a blowtorch)
not to mention it doesnt have any stable atmosphere meaning it is impossible for any progenitors of life
It has no atmosphere. It is as dead as our moon, in terms of the surface. It's why you can see all those craters. No wind to disrupt them.
K srsly, what's the cost estimate of getting a VERY heat-tolerant drilling/collecting probe to dig up and send back some of that ritzy space tin?