Something about the surface of Mercury just feels so despondent. Unlike the other planets, it's just completely dead. Still. No windstorms, no aurora, just miles of barren grey rock, stretching both back into the past and forward into the future for what is essentially an eternity. Even on the Moon there's at least the Earth in the sky and occasional eclipses; but Mercury's only constant companion is the near-static Sun that super-heats its surface, the same entity that will eventually cause its end. It's just baffling that such a large celestial object; a so-called heavenly body, could be so... quiet.
You could say the same thing about a grain of sand couldn't you? Just a completely still despondent. Yet we don't give any conscious effort to it because it is meaningless to us in scale. You could say the same about mercury as you did, but you gave a crap about it because it's scale is tremendous yet magnanimous. It gives you perspective. Don't forget space and time are congruent, so the bigger something is the slower it is perceived by us. Also vice versa (smaller the faster). Essentially Mercury is a wasteland, but so is that grain of sand on a much smaller scale. The larger scale elicits an emotional response because if its grandeur. The absolute beauty of the universe is understanding it does not have a definitive position in size or scale, inward or outwardly in spatial dimensions. I'm not on shrooms. Just sayin, think about it.
Something I love about your videos is you play the most appropriate music that invites awe and contemplation and sometimes fear. With the soft subtitles, the experience is truly immersive.
It's a bit odd how the Sun seems smaller than I expected from Mercury's surface. Oh sure it's definitely bigger, but from all the other photos and models of Mercury I would have expected it to take up half the sky or something. That's what always fascinates me about simulation videos like these; they really help give me a greater sense of scale and proportion when it comes to space objects.
Indeed. People often think it should take half the sky or more since it's the closest planet to the Sun, but it is still pretty far. The Sun appears ∼3x larger than it does from Earth, not much more than that!
Aye! If it were as big as taking up half the sky then I am sure our great big firey friend wouldve reeled in our lil planet and had her for lunch anyway! Not to mention it would probably also end up looking like a mini star due to burning up for being so close! XD
Most extrasolar systems we see, there are always planets way closer to their star than Mercury is to the sun. I wonder if there could have been another planet closer that was destroyed?
@@Jamieboi1989 Not to mention it'd need to be going ridiculously fast (but not too fast) around the sun just to maintain orbit 💀 Just imagine looking at the sun from Earth and seeing just the tiniest black speck zoom past it every second
How could you forget your suit? You trained for 5 years in the simulations like the rest of us, and had MONTHS to remember the suit before we got there.
There are true double sunrises (& sunsets!) on Mercury, but only if you are at the right longitudes. Here the sun rises, sinks back, then rises again. Then, at sunset, it sets, comes back, then sets properly. At other longitudes, 90deg away from the previous, you get double noons, where the sun passes overhead, stops & backtracks, then resumes its passage westward. Likewise there are double midnights, but there’s nothing dramatic to see there. This is all due to Mercury’s eccentric orbit & rotational locking, whereby it rotates three times for every two orbits of the sun. Its rotational speed is constant, but its orbital velocity changes greatly. When it is closest to the sun its orbital velocity makes a greater contribution the the sun’s apparent motion than its rotation does, and in the opposite direction. Owing to rotational locking, the longitudes where these phenomena are seen do not change.
That seems to happens also if you're a few miles from one of the poles, the sun sets, then as it just finishes setting, temporarily ever-so-slightly rises again before sinking, and then sunrise you get a brief teaser, it sets again,then rises for real
This planet is underrated in my opinion, and one of my favourite. I don't understand why nobody cares about Mercury, just because they think it is ugly or something, but it's the most interesting one until now!
When you've fallen into every planet in the solar system, multiple moons and a quasar, but you've never fallen in love "Hello darkness my old friiiiieeeeeend..." 💀
I just commented your new video, but this one, with this so much beautiful music and all this interesting facts, is maybe the video i watch again and again the most of yours. Again thank you.
Well if this can be any consolation, even if we destroy the climate beyond repair there will always be life on this planet in the form of hardy microbes. Until earth will get consumed by our sun's demise at least
This is my favorite one. Falling into it was so breathtakingly beautiful. Hanging out in the surface felt so serene and calm. I’ll definitely be coming back to this video ❤
Your videos are really cool. And they always give a relaxing but taciturn vibe. Keep them coming. How about falling into a shooting star? How would that be?
It's poetic that both the closest planetary body to the Sun (Mercury) and the farthest planetary body from the Sun (Sedna) are two of the saddest and loneliest places in our solar system.
Fascinating as always Stargaze! Your animations always immerses us so well! Loved it! Crazy how extreme the temperatures and brightness can get on planets without atmospheres! 😮
Love this vid! I'll always come back to do a new comment! The song that is sad and perfect for me and my mental stage now, and the astronomy subject that interests me so much! Thank you for this, Star ❤
there's one of the best asimov's tales set on mercury, "runaround", I was a child when I first read it (kids used to read very early back then). I still remember the details of the story, the setting, the scorching hot as soon as the human stepped out from the rock's shadow...
Quoted from another comment: ''There are true double sunrises (& sunsets!) on Mercury, but only if you are at the right longitudes. Here the sun rises, sinks back, then rises again. Then, at sunset, it sets, comes back, then sets properly. At other longitudes, 90deg away from the previous, you get double noons, where the sun passes overhead, stops & backtracks, then resumes its passage westward. Likewise there are double midnights, but there’s nothing dramatic to see there. This is all due to Mercury’s eccentric orbit & rotational locking, whereby it rotates three times for every two orbits of the sun. Its rotational speed is constant, but its orbital velocity changes greatly. When it is closest to the sun its orbital velocity makes a greater contribution the the sun’s apparent motion than its rotation does, and in the opposite direction. Owing to rotational locking, the longitudes where these phenomena are seen do not change.''
Crazy that it can get that cold at night, even though it's the closest planet to the sun. And I can't imagine how it must feel to have a pitch black sky during the day. You really get that feeling of being on a big rock floating in space.
Video idea/ideas: Now instead of planets in our solar system, you should make falling into exoplanets. I think it would be cool to experience falling into a world outside of our solar system
Hii, now I'm better of my situation, my life is more fun atleast for this day! I watched so many movies and played basketball with some people of my school. I know that my mom will bother me so many more times today, but i feel better of my loneliness today! And thank you another time for this vid ❤❤
I think that Mercury is so similar to the Moon. Both are just a white rock flying in the space, without atmosphere, clous, wind or anything like that. Both having a fully black sky with just their orbits in the sky. And both have so much craters and are a lonely, empty and sad place..
On Mercury in the twilight zone there is an area where the temperature is a nice 25 C - and given the rotational speed, you could (in theory) walk and remain in that temperature zone. its an interesting place
Hi I liked the video When you ultimately run out of planets to do then I have an idea Can you do videos like "Falling into Mercury if it had an atmosphere like earth"
Now that we've fallen into all the planets in the Solar System, what would you like to see next??
Definitely a neutron star lmao
falling into enceladus
Falling into Io Jupiters moon
Falling into another universe lol
Or falling into Titan
Something about the surface of Mercury just feels so despondent. Unlike the other planets, it's just completely dead. Still. No windstorms, no aurora, just miles of barren grey rock, stretching both back into the past and forward into the future for what is essentially an eternity. Even on the Moon there's at least the Earth in the sky and occasional eclipses; but Mercury's only constant companion is the near-static Sun that super-heats its surface, the same entity that will eventually cause its end. It's just baffling that such a large celestial object; a so-called heavenly body, could be so... quiet.
Damn this is deep
Bro please stop making me feel sad for a planet
You could say the same thing about a grain of sand couldn't you? Just a completely still despondent. Yet we don't give any conscious effort to it because it is meaningless to us in scale.
You could say the same about mercury as you did, but you gave a crap about it because it's scale is tremendous yet magnanimous. It gives you perspective. Don't forget space and time are congruent, so the bigger something is the slower it is perceived by us. Also vice versa (smaller the faster).
Essentially Mercury is a wasteland, but so is that grain of sand on a much smaller scale. The larger scale elicits an emotional response because if its grandeur. The absolute beauty of the universe is understanding it does not have a definitive position in size or scale, inward or outwardly in spatial dimensions.
I'm not on shrooms. Just sayin, think about it.
@@fiveoclockdockperhaps an ant thinks of a grain of sand the same way humans think of Mercury
Mercury is basically our moon lol
I don't know why, but Mercury came across as rather sad. Quite a moving video.
Mercury is so close to the Sun but still it seems sad. You're right indeed.
Poor thing is lonely too
It's got a lot of history of getting pelted by meteors, the fact that some of those craters happen billions of years ago is wild
Agreed
It's a dead planet that's why
Something I love about your videos is you play the most appropriate music that invites awe and contemplation and sometimes fear. With the soft subtitles, the experience is truly immersive.
It's a bit odd how the Sun seems smaller than I expected from Mercury's surface. Oh sure it's definitely bigger, but from all the other photos and models of Mercury I would have expected it to take up half the sky or something. That's what always fascinates me about simulation videos like these; they really help give me a greater sense of scale and proportion when it comes to space objects.
Indeed. People often think it should take half the sky or more since it's the closest planet to the Sun, but it is still pretty far. The Sun appears ∼3x larger than it does from Earth, not much more than that!
Aye! If it were as big as taking up half the sky then I am sure our great big firey friend wouldve reeled in our lil planet and had her for lunch anyway! Not to mention it would probably also end up looking like a mini star due to burning up for being so close! XD
Most extrasolar systems we see, there are always planets way closer to their star than Mercury is to the sun. I wonder if there could have been another planet closer that was destroyed?
@@Stargaze_youtube That looks less than three times bigger.
@@Jamieboi1989 Not to mention it'd need to be going ridiculously fast (but not too fast) around the sun just to maintain orbit 💀
Just imagine looking at the sun from Earth and seeing just the tiniest black speck zoom past it every second
At this point, doom guy is just flexing with his infinite stamina and indestructible nature.
That is Master Chief's visor.
@@philosotree5876HOLY SHIT THANK UUU FINALLY SOME ONE SAID IT
Haha I laugh . . .
@@philosotree5876Looks like the visor from Call of Duty infinite warfare yes now please execute me on the spot
@@MagnumLoadedTractor that is objectively Master Chief's.
Tried watching but died because we weren't wearing our indestructible suit.
How could you forget your suit? You trained for 5 years in the simulations like the rest of us, and had MONTHS to remember the suit before we got there.
Suit is on, you can see the mask.
How about swim suit?
Sorry about that
I was also thinking of it. 🤔
Although we're in a protective suit, I should have brought sunscreen.
we dont know for sure. for all we know we could be in a destructible suit
And a sunglass 😎
indestructible suit won't help us with COLDNESS and HOTNESS of a planet right ? Then we gonna die in seconds inside suits !
@@boho0114no these ones protect against that no problem.
@@ryanjohnson4565 like it's just a suit which will not break .. but can it maintain temperature inside too ?
Tragically beautiful
Or beautifully tragic 🤔
Well said.
WAKE UP BABE, IT'S NEW STARGAZE VIDEO
You should do falling series into major stars, both dwarf and supermassive red giants!
Yes we finally made it.😃😃😃
0:24 ch a c e la salu a voi
I haven't been this excited for a new video, since falling into Uranus
🤨
Wait a minute...
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Loved the music choice for this one. It fit very well with the episode
3:51 As creepy as that looks it’s actually quite beautiful.
There are true double sunrises (& sunsets!) on Mercury, but only if you are at the right longitudes. Here the sun rises, sinks back, then rises again. Then, at sunset, it sets, comes back, then sets properly. At other longitudes, 90deg away from the previous, you get double noons, where the sun passes overhead, stops & backtracks, then resumes its passage westward. Likewise there are double midnights, but there’s nothing dramatic to see there.
This is all due to Mercury’s eccentric orbit & rotational locking, whereby it rotates three times for every two orbits of the sun. Its rotational speed is constant, but its orbital velocity changes greatly. When it is closest to the sun its orbital velocity makes a greater contribution the the sun’s apparent motion than its rotation does, and in the opposite direction. Owing to rotational locking, the longitudes where these phenomena are seen do not change.
Tbf, same on Earth depending on where you are. A couple happened in Iceland not too long ago
In other words, mercury does little donuts on its orbital trajectory
A great explanation but if we had seen it through moving graphic images or animation, we would have much clarity on the same. Thank you so much.
* sips my drink *
That seems to happens also if you're a few miles from one of the poles, the sun sets, then as it just finishes setting, temporarily ever-so-slightly rises again before sinking, and then sunrise you get a brief teaser, it sets again,then rises for real
Thanks Stargaze for realizing my request, nice vid
Discovered these videos just 2 days ago and so glad to see another one. Thank you so much!!
You'll be lost in space soon.
I just searched "falling into mercury" at the right time
Amazing. I love your videos
Thank you
Without our indestructible suits the only thing we will be falling into is despair
😅😢
I was scared the whole time
Also dying of thirst.
wouldn't the sun be too hot and you'd die before even reaching the surface?
Finally an actual funny comment.
This planet is underrated in my opinion, and one of my favourite. I don't understand why nobody cares about Mercury, just because they think it is ugly or something, but it's the most interesting one until now!
When you've fallen into every planet in the solar system, multiple moons and a quasar, but you've never fallen in love
"Hello darkness my old friiiiieeeeeend..." 💀
😂😂😂 underrated comment 😂
Then you will fall into despair!
I LOVE these videos, im excited to see anything new you bring to the table!
Thank you! More is coming!
@@Stargaze_youtubepleeeease don’t forget the indestructible suit next time. It was pretty jarring not having it.
I just commented your new video, but this one, with this so much beautiful music and all this interesting facts, is maybe the video i watch again and again the most of yours. Again thank you.
Mercury looks like a bigger version of our moon. Nice videos my friend.
3:25 during the day the planet is burning hot. With temperatures up to 420 degrees.
Snoop Dogg: _boards spaceship_
I love these videos. Thank you for making them.
I feel sad when I see this, it remember me it could happen to earth. Life is so precious and fragile.
we have too much awareness for our fraigle bodies. it doesnt fit.
Well if this can be any consolation, even if we destroy the climate beyond repair there will always be life on this planet in the form of hardy microbes. Until earth will get consumed by our sun's demise at least
Thank you for these beautiful simulations. It is all fascinating and mesmerizing to live and experience.
Love your videos, I've been listening to them on loop as I go to sleep and honestly so satisfying.
This is my favorite one. Falling into it was so breathtakingly beautiful. Hanging out in the surface felt so serene and calm. I’ll definitely be coming back to this video ❤
Finally! The big ol rock planet.
Your videos are progressively becoming better and better, keep up the good work
Been waiting for this one finally!
Is no one going to talk about how good his music choices are?
Guys wake up, stargaze uploaded a new video!
Thank you for making these videos :)
i love the music sounds very calming
Back-to-back Sunrise, give me a goosebumps bro!
Mercury is like the Moon with no Atmosphere and Rocky Planet
I always wait for these videos with great impatience and I'm never disappointed. Always a masterpiece.
BABE WAKE UP STARGAZE POSTED
Is feeling bad for a planet a thing now or is it just me?
Oh my gosh 🤦♂️
Huh ?
Its just you.
Not just you
Felt same way fpr some reason maybe cuz of music or the writing being genuinely sad
With Mercury getting up to 420º during the day, they're really blazing it down there
Appx an 1100° F differential between day and night. Even though the cycle is slow (6 months) surely this would act to erode the surface features?
@@billycarr7446 i was making a 420 joke..
@@anthonywrasslinAnd getting lower than -69 degrees, it gets pretty chilly and quite freaky
It was Johnny Hopkins and Sloan Kettering, and they were blazing that shit up every day.
Your videos are really cool. And they always give a relaxing but taciturn vibe. Keep them coming. How about falling into a shooting star? How would that be?
It's poetic that both the closest planetary body to the Sun (Mercury) and the farthest planetary body from the Sun (Sedna) are two of the saddest and loneliest places in our solar system.
Both pictures and music are excellent. Thank you for your work!
Thank you! New stuff soon
Thanks for video 🎉
It was much more interesting than I expected 😮 Thank you for your thorough work 🤍
I am going to subscribe this channel. Have become fan of this
Fascinating as always Stargaze! Your animations always immerses us so well! Loved it! Crazy how extreme the temperatures and brightness can get on planets without atmospheres! 😮
Been waiting for this!
Thanks for exploring me!
Mercury needed some powerful storms today. Mercury has Swirling Winds and rolling winds! and Mercury has 4 moons.
I'm impressed by the guys picking you up again over and over again. Almost like a ranger during winter in yellowstone, picking up trapped tourists...
Hello!! I'm just there cause i like this video ❤❤ Have a good day, Star!
Great as always!
Great work! I really find your videos very interesting. Animation must have taken ages as it seems so professionally done!
Love this vid! I'll always come back to do a new comment! The song that is sad and perfect for me and my mental stage now, and the astronomy subject that interests me so much! Thank you for this, Star ❤
Yes I made this one a bit sad, hopefully not too sad! Thank you!!
@Stargaze_youtube This makes me so sad haha, maybe i'm too sensitive but i still love watching this vid 💗💗
there's one of the best asimov's tales set on mercury, "runaround", I was a child when I first read it (kids used to read very early back then). I still remember the details of the story, the setting, the scorching hot as soon as the human stepped out from the rock's shadow...
I like the fact that you can see the stars so clearly
I love your videos thankyou for posting ♥️
Inside Mercury sounds lonely and scary. I’ve always seem this small planet like The Moon’s Sibling
The double sunrise is fascinating need to know how this happens
Yes, I also want to know and understand it.
Quoted from another comment:
''There are true double sunrises (& sunsets!) on Mercury, but only if you are at the right longitudes. Here the sun rises, sinks back, then rises again. Then, at sunset, it sets, comes back, then sets properly. At other longitudes, 90deg away from the previous, you get double noons, where the sun passes overhead, stops & backtracks, then resumes its passage westward. Likewise there are double midnights, but there’s nothing dramatic to see there.
This is all due to Mercury’s eccentric orbit & rotational locking, whereby it rotates three times for every two orbits of the sun. Its rotational speed is constant, but its orbital velocity changes greatly. When it is closest to the sun its orbital velocity makes a greater contribution the the sun’s apparent motion than its rotation does, and in the opposite direction. Owing to rotational locking, the longitudes where these phenomena are seen do not change.''
Crazy that it can get that cold at night, even though it's the closest planet to the sun. And I can't imagine how it must feel to have a pitch black sky during the day. You really get that feeling of being on a big rock floating in space.
Video idea/ideas:
Now instead of planets in our solar system, you should make falling into exoplanets. I think it would be cool to experience falling into a world outside of our solar system
Mercury is like our moon at first glance.
Yes, and both same similar things
Beautiful music.
My favorite planet
If you are open to suggestions maybe a series of exploring planets land features. Would like be to see a video of the guy hiking up Olympic mons.
This dude gonna be first to get a crack at that 10 mile thick diamond haha 💎
Hii, now I'm better of my situation, my life is more fun atleast for this day! I watched so many movies and played basketball with some people of my school. I know that my mom will bother me so many more times today, but i feel better of my loneliness today! And thank you another time for this vid ❤❤
Love watching your videos
This one was my favorite
I think that Mercury is so similar to the Moon. Both are just a white rock flying in the space, without atmosphere, clous, wind or anything like that. Both having a fully black sky with just their orbits in the sky. And both have so much craters and are a lonely, empty and sad place..
3:48 HEY WHY DID YOU FAKE IT
terrific job!!!
Thank you!!
Space Engine sure delivers 👌🏽 downloaded it recently and was pleasantly surprised. I wish Universe Sandbox was this detailed…
Your videos leave me in awe and give me peace :) thank you!!
I would love to see some videos about like planets such as Kepler 442b
Man i love these videos!
So Mercury is just a bigger moon. Except it is really hot and cold. Would be a great planet to live in if it wasn't so close to the sun.
Mercury is so similar with moon!!!
@@pedroaccioliIf I recall, our Moon 🌝 is slightly bigger than Mercury
mercury is hot and it's cold
It's yes and it's no
it's in and it's out
it's up and it's down
it's wrong and it's right
it's black and it's white
Thank you for this awe inspiring journey through our solar system
I agree with you.
Poor Freddie. He chose to be the first as Mercury, but also it came with the great loneliness.
Mercury is like the moon, there’s nothing out there.
👍👍👍
so cool
The best quiet and lonely place i'll prefer for introverts.
Millions and billions year old asteroid scars, amazing!
Thanks for taking yo homie there.
eres increíble tío, un lujo poder ver tus maravillosas obras de arte
Quality Content. ❤
It would be neat if these videos could be incorporated into one of those simulators that move like a spaceship.
On Mercury in the twilight zone there is an area where the temperature is a nice 25 C - and given the rotational speed, you could (in theory) walk and remain in that temperature zone. its an interesting place
Yes that narrow twilight zone is very interesting! You better have a good timing to follow it
Good job !!!! Thanks
I remember first hearing this song in The Shopping Cart Theory. At some point, just to have a fixture, we must place a shopping cart on Mercury.
WHAT A COINCIDENCE ! just like Mercury, I also am 420°C high while watching this video
Lol......"...you can see the stars quite clearly....", well, glad they could come up with one nice thing to say about this blasted world. 🙂
Never thought I could relate more to a planet.
Where can I download your soundtrack? It's beautiful
Why am I feeling so sad about a planet
It is normal from humans to feel sad about even a giant rock in space. I felt sad too for it. It a empathy that just our specie have
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Hi I liked the video
When you ultimately run out of planets to do then I have an idea
Can you do videos like "Falling into Mercury if it had an atmosphere like earth"