questions: if mercury temperature on the light side is very hot and on the dark side is very cold and his rotation is locked to the sun. Is there any gradient temperature between the light side and the dark side? it is possible that theres some nice temperature between this gradient ?
I didn't know that Mercury at some points obtains the same rotational as orbital velocity! The information about the 7 transitions per year was interesting, too. Excellent job! However, I would prefer your including some dates (e.g. Messenger arrival etc.).
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1 thing I find interesting about Mercury, is due to the lack of atmosphere there is no sound on Mercury, so if you set off a nuke on Mercury, you would not hear it.
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man should at one point move Mercury to orbit Venus. The outcome would be that
1. Venus would begin having plate tectonics like earth (its core gets gravitationally churned) , and therefore, 2) start processing its carbon dioxide and cool down, 3) begin rotating faster (Mercury's gravitational tug will make it rotate faster than its almost non existent rotation today) and 4) become ready to host liquid water (which can be easily delieverd to her via a few large icy comets.
man should at one point move Mercury to orbit Venus. The outcome would be that
1. Venus would begin having plate techtonic like earth (its core gets gravitationally churned) , and therefore, 2) start processing its carbon dioxide and cool down, 3) begin rotating faster (Mercury's gravitational tug will make it rotate faster than its almost non existent rotation today) and 4) become ready to host liquid water (which can be easily delieverd to her via a few large icy comets.
INCREDIBLE! WONDERFUL JOB! THANKS! You explain SO well, visual & educational! I have LOADS of Astronomy books, & I got my first one at age 4! Now, I'm almost 27! It's amazing what I & others have learned from decades ago to today! Imagine what we'll know decades to come! I also wonder if Mercury was a moon of Venus, or other planet, or the core of a larger planet? NASA should send a probe to a magnetic pole crater to gather more!
"The Universe is a Beautiful, Mysterious, & Chaotic Place."
Thank you for explaining the apparent backward travel of the sun from Mercury. I had heard of it, but until your explanation didn't understand it. I look forward to your work on the other planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and anything else that catches your fancy.
Great video. Makes you wonder if there is an area near the poles where the temperate is relatively stable in a range we're familiar with here on Earth. With such a scant atmosphere, I guess it would be a tiny zone at best though (if there is one).
cavetroll666 your a dumb ass.. I don't understand how with all the proof and scientific studies how you can say space is a figment of our imagination.. your a retard
peopletalk about how no life can exist on many of the planets in the universe what if there life and what they are made of can stand these conditions they would probably die on earth thats why we dont get visited by aliens because they would die.
you're saying that aliens don't visit earth because they'd die??? humans can't live on the moon but we went there and survived thanks to astronaut suits. the aliens could have special suits that function like nasa's allowing them to remain alive on a planet that doesn't produce what they need to survive.
I would not say that evidence now points to Mercury actually being a gas giant. I would stick with the premise that it is a very good theory. There are to many things for and against right now. Though you may be right, i guess only time will tell. It could help to explain the very large core though! :O)
well many other solar systems point to large gas giants orbiting near the parent star. if mercury supposedly has a highly dense core - much denser than its "meant " to be - well.. to me that just screams gas giant without the gas.
but yea its only evidence pointing towards it. its not evidence of it. Im hoping future exploration of mercury will prove this correct because that would be amazing imo.
Hmm well, during the formation of the solar system, heave dense objects like rocks and metals were gathered closer to the Sun. Light gasses like hydrogen and helium were blown out into the outer solar system we see today as gas giants. Mercury might've had an atmosphere but not hydrogen and helium, but carbon dioxide like Venus because it's a rocky planet. Early Earth's atmosphere of CO2 became nitrogen and oxygen-rich because of early microorganisms that produced it. :D Hope it helps!
It's hard to imagine ice lasting for so long on a planet with virtually no atmosphere, even in the conditions you describe many degrees below freezing. Wouldn't the lack of pressure allow the ice to eventually sublimate? Mercury must have at least some atmospheric pressure to prevent this occurance.
Thanks for posting and staying so active. We owe you a debt of gratitude!
If it exists then It could still be there, but in the crust more than likely. As increased pressure lowers the melting point of ice, this is still debateable. Thanks for the great comment! All the best. :O)
1) Yes. There is without a doubt, other life in the Universe. What type of life? Who knows?
2) Not without the strongest of protection from the Sun. Far stronger than we can imagine! I really don't think we would even try.
3) This would be due to the core cooling down. It can be measured by the weak magnetic field. This does not however mean there wont be another eruption. Just unlikely.
Hey AggmanUk, I love your videos! You're really smart, I think you're a genious! Or maybe i'm just dumb. But I got three questions that I was hoping you could answer.
1.) Do you believe in Extraterrestials? (Not really about Mercury)
MESSENGER will do it's third flyby this fall before inserting itself into orbit around Mercury in 2011. From then the knowledge of Mercury will expand rapidly.
You mentioned in the caption "Mercury looks cold and dead...." Cold? the majority of the surface is HOT if in sunlight! Ha.
Also, the surface of Mercury looks much like Moon's and the ooze flow out of the crater is similar to Gustav Crater on Mars where Spirit rover is now at.
:O) Thanks very much for the really great comment! Your very kind! :O)
Mercury is very small and has more than likely cooled down internally to a point where the core has become mostly solid. So there is no liquid magma to try and force its way to the surface. This does not really mean that scientists are 100% sure that a volcano will not erupt again. It just seems very unlikely. All the best! :O)
does it take more time to rotate around the sun than a single day! i cant unterstand why i just know that this should be based on Keplers laws, isnt it?
Not sure what you mean exactly. Are we talking about Mercury here? If so, then it fits into Keplers 'Three Laws of Planetary Motion'. If you search for the 'Kepler's Laws Calculator' then you can find the answer you need. All the best! :O)
well i have a theroy / i find it very hard that all the planets in awere solarsestem earth got the lucky straw in resources to make awer world, what if earth robed resources from other planits in inpacked as the solarsestem formed like a game of pool,hiting other planets like mars,mercury pluto ex. but instead of going in a pocket as to say it stayed on the table and landed in a sweet spot lol just my theroy sorry for spelling lol
Yes, Earth is very unique! Earth is actually a combination of all the different planets into one super planet. As you can see, Earth can be hot like Venus, cold like Pluto. Earth has water and is blue like Neptune. Earth have storms and auroras like Jupiter, as well as satellite (our moon) like Saturn, which is known for its rings and satellites. Earth has active volcanoes like Venus. Earth is rich in iron like Mars. Earth is specially designed for us! :)
makes u think, if earth came to be, there is a deffenit amount of other planits out there that could have formed simaler to earth or we could be not so common, i highly dont think so though do to awer solarsestem complacations like resourses (water a lot of it ) and location and protection ,but simalar planits could form though not as abbundent of life as awer planit is...........or were freaks of univers nature lol
It's really not a freak of nature. It is too easy to predict life on what we see in our solar syatem. You can't do that though because the universe is so different in many ways. 1 solar system could contain mostly water, another ice, another rock etc... It is estimated that there are a minimum of 10,000 plantets in every galaxy that could support life, now multiply that by the amount of galaxies.
and there could be a minimum of 1000000000000000 earth like planets in the universe. :O)
Well don't worry, you're not a freak. To determine if life exists in another star-system or galaxy further enough, we must do the math. Our Earth is in the habitable zone of our solar system, our sun which is a yellow dwarf, and the third position from it, and will remain that way for another 10 billion year perhaps? Until the sun consumes Earth. So if the star is a red giant, then for liquid water and life to exist the planet must be further than Earth's former habitable, get it?
What I meant was, the bigger the star, the further the planet must be. The smaller the star, the closer the planet must be, that is in order for liquid water to exist because it needs just the right temperature where water wont boil or freeze. Also the planet must be the right size like Earth, otherwise the gravity might be too weak to support an atmosphere or too strong that it crushes us. In addition, the planet must have a magnetic field and volcanic activity...
continuing on, it needs to have the right atmosphere. Our earth is about 78%nitrogen and 21% oxygen, and the remaining carbon dioxide, argon, and various gasses. In order for plants to live we need carbon dioxide, but not too much or human and animals will suffocate. The planet must have a mixture of nitrogen higher than the amount of oxygen and not the other way around, or the planet is highly flammable. Planets containing hydrogen like the giants are highly explosve. We're lucky to have earth!
Other planets dont need to have the same atmosphere as Earth for life. What your talking about is a planet that could hold human life. We have found various other ways life could exist. Just look at the bottom of the oceans. Also a new theory has just been anounced saying that tiny flowers like the ones we see at Earths poles could in theory exist on Europa. We are starting to learn that life is mcuh more diverse than we give it credit for. There is even life found in the Dead Sea. LOL
Well I'm sorry I wasn't specific enough, I meant human life, but life seems interesting! I learn new things everyday and I appreciate it, all the best! :)
actually it is said that life actually teraformed the earth making it habitable over millions of years more and more complexe life started to aries just with the evalution of plaints ex started with preastoric planctin,the more basic than plaints than trees than flower plants the more evolved the plant to give off more oxigen the more complexe life appears so life gives rise to more life just needs a little boost first and a starting point
im not a expert but if they could servive and mutiply and have lots of room to grow such as a hug water source ya i think so it would take millions of years to see the efect though on a atmospher if it can hold a atmospher .......long as it has carbindioxid for the planits to feed of ya but like i said im not a expert but makes sence to me (organic teraforming)
Well, if Venus and Mars are both rich in carbon dioxide then plant life might just work, but what type of plant life can survive in water vapor or ice water? Liquid water are both scarce on those planets...and it would take billions of years for water to melt on other planets and moons since we would have to wait for the sun to grow bigger and warmer. I think it's ok for now for us to define life in those planets/moons as micro-organisms/bacterias. Where there is water, there is life...
Yeah let's not be greedy and define life for just us humans and animals...After all, every living thing is made of water. Hydrogen is waterforming, hydrogen is like Gods holy gas in which life cannot start without it...
Algae would be the best action to take as these can survive extreme conditions and they would transform the atmosphere over time. Europa would be a great place to try this if there isint already algae there..
Perhaps. I had a thought that Mercury was once a gas giant when the sun was still young, then the sun got bigger into it's size now that the atmosphere evaporated, leaving it bald only with it's rocky planet...but I guess that's just me and one of my fantasies. Why I thought of that? Because I heard that Mercury has 70% argon in its atmosphere as well as other radioactive decay materials...but I'm sure Mercury was not a gas giant. Just for thoughts :)
Remember that just because we are in an ideal zone, does not mean every other planet or moon has to like us to support life or have liquid water. For example... Put a moon like Europa between various other moons or planets so it gets good tidal heating. Giive it a good magnetic field and ample gravity and hey presto... Water world! This came be any distance from the Sun. It could also be various sizes. It all comes down to its habitat. Life could be everywhere, we just can't see it yet.
Hmm interesting, and yeah true enough. I've heard of bacterias who survive in extreme conditions and there are probably some microorganisms living in our solar systems moons. Oh and never knew about tidal heating...I learn new thinks everyday! :)
once again nice videos (WANT MORE) LOL ennyway seems to me earth was lucky and got the best materal when the solarsistem was formed and located in the best location green zone making it unique and perfect for life but with all the planits in awer solarsestem, the gas giants seem to get all the negative components and the smaller planits get less making life more posibale.
Lovely, AggMan! I've subscribed. I'm following the New Horizons and Messenger missions too. Keep up the good work, you make astronomy hugely entertaining.
Hi there! :O) The music is up in the top right hand corner in the video info. It is Musica Univeralis, by Mike Oldfield. Glad you enjoyed the video! All the best! :O)
I am afraid that you have been misinformed. Mercury does indeed have an atmosphere, though there are a couple of points to note. It is very, very, very thin and gets destroyed and replenished (for want of better words) often. The makeup of this thin atmosphere is hydrogen, helium, oxygen, sodium, calcium, potassium and recently discovered by the Messenger probe, there are trace amounts of water vapor.
Yes thats right! It is about 1 million times thinner than our own. It is mostly a sodium cloud, commonly called an 'exosphere' that reaches all the way to the surface. It was confirmed in the early 1990's. All the best!
But could somebody explain how a day on mercery vorks in layman terms if a day is 57 days long but some parts of the planet is forever hidden i darkness. Is the planet not roatating but moore of rolling along as a tennis ball on its axis around the sun?
Hi! Mercury does rotate, Here is a very brief explanation to your question.
Every part of the planet does see sunlight in a sense. But imagine very large craters at the North and South poles of the Planet. Craters so deep that their sides are very steep and cause a shadow to be cast thats further than the center point of said crater. So, when the planet rotates, the center of the crater never sees direct sunlight. Amazingly, it is possible for ice to survive there for millions of years.
According to my horoscope, Mercury is my ruling planet. Which is funny too because I enjoy really hot weather and was born during one of the hottest August's, and that its the planet closest to the Sun.
Another excellent video! Many props to you! I really do enjoy learning new things about the planets of our solar system, and i must say, i learn something new every time i see one of your videos! Thanks you!!!
Many thanks for the great comment, i am so glad you enjoy them but more so that you have learnt a little something from each one. Many many thanks! All the best! :O)
Btw I thought one side of Mercury is always teurned towards sun and the other side faces away from the sun and therefor one side has a very high temerature while the other side is extremely cold?
That is commonly though but, Mercury rotates just like the Earth. It takes just over 58 days to complete a single day, so every part of the planet does gets a chance to face the Sun. I have to admit, in my earlier years i though just as you did! Thanks for the great comment! All the best! :O)
OMG this is a master piece. Ive never seen a video so interesing. It must have been very hard to create this. I learned some facts about MErcury I had never evn heard of before. I understand why u dont want anybody to download thisvideo. A painstakingly created video. If you disable embedding then nobody can download this isnt it?
Thank you very much, your very kind! :O) It's not that i don't want people downloading it, i just don't like people downloading it, then chopping it up. If they want the material, they can find it all over the net, so there is no need to chop up these ones. A few people have already used these videos to help in their school work and thats fantastic. Thanks again! I hope you like the others as much as you liked this on. There are 17 of them now! :O)
Hi again! All the (19) videos on my page are made by me. The great music is 99% Mike Oldfield. The images are collected by me on the internet from NASA and other sites. Then I find video I like and edit that to what I want. Then I make the start logos with the name of the video. I have 3 versions of the end AggManUK logo, so I can fit to different song lengths. Then I write what I want to say for each frame. Then I put it all to music. So, no its not ready made, takes a lot of work. :O)
Teachers are homan beings and say all sorts of things when they're NOT ACTUALLY TEACHING. You must be REALLY STUPID if you think that teachers are not human.
You should be minding your own business budy lol if you see the person w ho claimed to be a teacher you would understand that , that person doesn't seem to be a teacher or professional at all. so check your facts ok/.?
Hi there! :O) Mercury does not have ice for sure. But because the poles have craters which have sides that have never seen the sun, there is a chance that any ice that once formed there, could still be there. Until we get better data, we don't know for sure. Many thanks for watching! I hope you enjoy my other videos. :O) All the best!
ok. Well it's not easy to download from Youtube. In fact. i don't think it's legal, i am not sure. If you are going to use it for a MS powerpoint project, then you can just add it as a link.
TO download this u need to get a youtube converter. can get it for free online.I guess the most popular software is dvdvideosoft frees tudio. Sorree AggManUk if u dont like anybody downloading it.:(
I don't know, I used to think Mercury was the hottest planet, but I have also heard that Venus is the hottest planet. I think Mercury has closer contact with the sun.
They are two different types of heating. Mercury just gets baked by the Sun as it is so close, so in that respect, it is the hottest. Venus has an atmosphere with a run away green house effect, so in that respect, it's the hottest. Then of course you have Io. That can reach 2000k on its surface because of the volcanos! All gets a bit crazy don't it! Many thanks for watching! :O)
questions: if mercury temperature on the light side is very hot and on the dark side is very cold and his rotation is locked to the sun. Is there any gradient temperature between the light side and the dark side? it is possible that theres some nice temperature between this gradient ?
stjester 15 hours ago
someone actually got to pluto and im not lying.
tyejss 1 week ago
you never had t oput your username in the title. We can tell its by you
agr227 3 weeks ago
I love this video, great inspiration for my project
101greekboy 3 weeks ago
very cool.
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I didn't know that Mercury at some points obtains the same rotational as orbital velocity! The information about the 7 transitions per year was interesting, too. Excellent job! However, I would prefer your including some dates (e.g. Messenger arrival etc.).
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WhiteSoulGuardian 1 month ago
This was really gorgeous! Thank you for all the wonderful.
Since Mercury cannot be approached, my personification determines that it must be lonely.
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DarkMoonDroid 1 month ago
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whotaughtyou 1 month ago
Very informative, thank you.
arsviatticae 2 months ago
A very informative video.. thanks for sharing... :)
iampeeay01 2 months ago
music link plz! :D gr8 vid dude.
warraider100 3 months ago
I've only found Mercury once with my naked eye. It looked kind of pink, but then again you can only see it after sunset or before sunrise.
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thank u so much for making this!!!!! i got 100 on all my reports on the planets of the solar system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i really love the back ground music it makes it more interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheIversonfamily 3 months ago
GO MERCURY! TAKE THE TITLE OF PLUTO! SMALLEST PLANET!
Skyheadful 5 months ago
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sandatahangkabaklaan 6 months ago
Mercury was guided by Sailor Mercury which its power is about Water and Bubbles
I dont know if it have Ice
but why could Sailor Mercury Bend a water?
theres no water on Planet Mercury
if theres a water on mercury the waters should melt or dry
wengneuda13 7 months ago
1 thing I find interesting about Mercury, is due to the lack of atmosphere there is no sound on Mercury, so if you set off a nuke on Mercury, you would not hear it.
Zizumia1 8 months ago
hahaha Go Mercury!
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cookiesrain 10 months ago
Well I'm impressed. :-)
I guess you know that MESSENGER is now orbiting Mercury? Time for an updated version - maybe after a few more results and images are released?
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man should at one point move Mercury to orbit Venus. The outcome would be that
1. Venus would begin having plate tectonics like earth (its core gets gravitationally churned) , and therefore, 2) start processing its carbon dioxide and cool down, 3) begin rotating faster (Mercury's gravitational tug will make it rotate faster than its almost non existent rotation today) and 4) become ready to host liquid water (which can be easily delieverd to her via a few large icy comets.
hotboyclarence 1 year ago
man should at one point move Mercury to orbit Venus. The outcome would be that
1. Venus would begin having plate techtonic like earth (its core gets gravitationally churned) , and therefore, 2) start processing its carbon dioxide and cool down, 3) begin rotating faster (Mercury's gravitational tug will make it rotate faster than its almost non existent rotation today) and 4) become ready to host liquid water (which can be easily delieverd to her via a few large icy comets.
hotboyclarence 1 year ago
The music from 4:04 to 5:21 is aweesoome!!
askjiir 1 year ago
Great video!!! Great images...thanks....
piergiorgiovico 1 year ago
@piergiorgiovico Piergiorgio, thanks for sharing!!!!
tamiatami 1 year ago
i like da mercury symbol...SO CUTE! lmao
genuinebeauty00 1 year ago
INCREDIBLE! WONDERFUL JOB! THANKS! You explain SO well, visual & educational! I have LOADS of Astronomy books, & I got my first one at age 4! Now, I'm almost 27! It's amazing what I & others have learned from decades ago to today! Imagine what we'll know decades to come! I also wonder if Mercury was a moon of Venus, or other planet, or the core of a larger planet? NASA should send a probe to a magnetic pole crater to gather more!
"The Universe is a Beautiful, Mysterious, & Chaotic Place."
-Kyle
KarbineKyle 1 year ago
beautifully done! Nice music and good clear facts along with great images. Really nice. I'm so glad you have done all the planets!
bethanysage 1 year ago
Awesome music and very informative!
aardvark9100 1 year ago
your videos are very interesting and keep a persons attention. Thank you.
wolfstev76 1 year ago
Thank you for explaining the apparent backward travel of the sun from Mercury. I had heard of it, but until your explanation didn't understand it. I look forward to your work on the other planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and anything else that catches your fancy.
maryellencastello 1 year ago
yes, that was fantastic.. I didn't know that the hubble has never looked at mercury.
fmnma1 1 year ago
Awesome video and music! I really loved this one!
madamecarroll 1 year ago
I read Mercury is smaller than earth's moon.
hydrolito 1 year ago
Buen video amigo. Good job! :-)
TheRocky627 1 year ago
so on mercury a year there is two days? And how could it possibly have water there at 700 degrees.
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@MrDroberts24 When the planet rotates around the Sun (Year) before it completes one of it's own rotations (Day).
As for Ice (not water), when its in a permanent shadow of a crater. Hope that helps. :O)
AggManUK 1 year ago
Yay! this vid helped so much! im doing a project on mercury, and this helped me the whole way through! THX!!! :D
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Yep u r rite I'm also a teacher and I wanted to show this to my students the moment I saw this.
And oh yes some people can dwonload the best videos and then edit them to make the worst ones lol.
So you didnt create this yourself? You mean this video is available just evrywhere readymade like this?
lol what explains that? you said that 1 year ago you stupid liar.
digitalchico 2 years ago
great vids, i started from neptune and went down to Mercury
Deathencounter 2 years ago
Great video. Makes you wonder if there is an area near the poles where the temperate is relatively stable in a range we're familiar with here on Earth. With such a scant atmosphere, I guess it would be a tiny zone at best though (if there is one).
sepulchural 2 years ago
cavetroll666 your a dumb ass.. I don't understand how with all the proof and scientific studies how you can say space is a figment of our imagination.. your a retard
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@CaznBerry its called trolling he clearly succeeded lol
DyeNasty09 2 months ago
@CaznBerry the name tells it all CAVE TROLL
MrNyoike 1 week ago
good videoand explain thx
xmx05 2 years ago 5
Thank you! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago 3
@xmx05 Nice use of English
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space does not exist, its just us imagining it.
cavetroll666 2 years ago
its heaps good but no volume on this computer
BAH33J 2 years ago
cool vid thanks!!
jpp144 2 years ago 3
peopletalk about how no life can exist on many of the planets in the universe what if there life and what they are made of can stand these conditions they would probably die on earth thats why we dont get visited by aliens because they would die.
KOKID83 2 years ago
you're saying that aliens don't visit earth because they'd die??? humans can't live on the moon but we went there and survived thanks to astronaut suits. the aliens could have special suits that function like nasa's allowing them to remain alive on a planet that doesn't produce what they need to survive.
naggedd 2 years ago 3
Interesting
smokenfly514 2 years ago
Dude nice video and music choice!
elegate87 2 years ago
Thank you very much for watching and leaving the great comment! :O) All the best!
AggManUK 2 years ago
@AggManUK This really helped! Thanks!
MywaytoKillyou 4 months ago
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TheIversonfamily 3 months ago
@AggManUK Six people do not know a fact about science.
AmazingOnes45 15 hours ago
evidence now points to Mercury actually being a gas giant that has lost all the gas and all thats left is the rocky core which we see today.
Xellith 2 years ago
I would not say that evidence now points to Mercury actually being a gas giant. I would stick with the premise that it is a very good theory. There are to many things for and against right now. Though you may be right, i guess only time will tell. It could help to explain the very large core though! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
well many other solar systems point to large gas giants orbiting near the parent star. if mercury supposedly has a highly dense core - much denser than its "meant " to be - well.. to me that just screams gas giant without the gas.
but yea its only evidence pointing towards it. its not evidence of it. Im hoping future exploration of mercury will prove this correct because that would be amazing imo.
Xellith 2 years ago
You do have a very good point! Lets hope we find out in our life time. Wouldn't that be great! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
mercury may have been a gas before it was caught up in the suns orbit.
xj2yzz 2 years ago
Yes it may, lets hope we get better evidence soon! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
Hmm well, during the formation of the solar system, heave dense objects like rocks and metals were gathered closer to the Sun. Light gasses like hydrogen and helium were blown out into the outer solar system we see today as gas giants. Mercury might've had an atmosphere but not hydrogen and helium, but carbon dioxide like Venus because it's a rocky planet. Early Earth's atmosphere of CO2 became nitrogen and oxygen-rich because of early microorganisms that produced it. :D Hope it helps!
sharinganx12 2 years ago
Sometime ago, on a lucky click, I discovered "your" Mercury as the first
of a great series of videos.
I hope you enjoy my way to say how strange and beautiful Space can be and I thank you once again for your inspiration and outstanding work.
MuzamProd 2 years ago
Thanks for the great comment, i thank that lucky click! Also thanks for the funky Mercury video response! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
Thank you very much for watching and leaving a comment! :O) All the best!
AggManUK 2 years ago
Nice and very interesting!!
jjhendo 2 years ago
COOL!! GOES WELL WITH THE MUSIC.
BMONEY2201 2 years ago
Many thanks for watching! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
wow its good. the sdongs really good too. it got stuck im my head
RCT3rox 2 years ago
Many thanks! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
cool vid man
pinkypoo77 2 years ago
Thanks for watching! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
How strong is 700 Kelvin?
How many degrees does this establish ?
metalnat23 2 years ago
Hi there, here you go...
700 kelvin = 426.85 degrees Celsius or 800.33 degrees Fahrenheit.
so...
1 kelvin = - 272.15 degrees Celsius or - 457.87 degrees Fahrenheit.
All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
Woooooooow
And human nature can BARELY SURVIVE 120 degrees lol
Holy shit!
How the planet didn't even burn itself out yet?
: O
And thanks for the reply.
metalnat23 2 years ago
kelvin scale shows 0 degrees celsius is at 273.15k
leeming08 2 years ago
Thats right, i made a typo. :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
It's hard to imagine ice lasting for so long on a planet with virtually no atmosphere, even in the conditions you describe many degrees below freezing. Wouldn't the lack of pressure allow the ice to eventually sublimate? Mercury must have at least some atmospheric pressure to prevent this occurance.
Thanks for posting and staying so active. We owe you a debt of gratitude!
ZombieCobain 2 years ago
If it exists then It could still be there, but in the crust more than likely. As increased pressure lowers the melting point of ice, this is still debateable. Thanks for the great comment! All the best. :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
checking out all the planets in our solar system-very nice.... thanks...
howardb42006 2 years ago
Thanks very much for watching them! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
Sorry I accidently pressed the post comment button :p.
2.) Do you think humans will be able to ever colonize Mercury. Maybe make bases in the craters.
3.) If there were Volcanoes why did they stop being active?
FutureAstronomer369 2 years ago
Hi there!
1) Yes. There is without a doubt, other life in the Universe. What type of life? Who knows?
2) Not without the strongest of protection from the Sun. Far stronger than we can imagine! I really don't think we would even try.
3) This would be due to the core cooling down. It can be measured by the weak magnetic field. This does not however mean there wont be another eruption. Just unlikely.
All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
"2.) Do you think humans will be able to ever colonize Mercury. Maybe make bases in the craters."
Definitely!!
Not in our life time though.
This might take another thousand years to achieve.
Technology is advancing at full speed though.
So at least this might happen in less than one thousand years.
metalnat23 2 years ago
Hey AggmanUk, I love your videos! You're really smart, I think you're a genious! Or maybe i'm just dumb. But I got three questions that I was hoping you could answer.
1.) Do you believe in Extraterrestials? (Not really about Mercury)
2.)
FutureAstronomer369 2 years ago
MESSENGER will do it's third flyby this fall before inserting itself into orbit around Mercury in 2011. From then the knowledge of Mercury will expand rapidly.
You mentioned in the caption "Mercury looks cold and dead...." Cold? the majority of the surface is HOT if in sunlight! Ha.
Also, the surface of Mercury looks much like Moon's and the ooze flow out of the crater is similar to Gustav Crater on Mars where Spirit rover is now at.
Good work!
MtDewTaz 2 years ago
I look forward to 2011 and the data it brings. :O)
Are you sure its the majority of Mercury hot in sunlight? Or maybe just half. LOL He! :O)
It really does look like the Moon, i would love to know how it looked just after it formed and cooled.
AggManUK 2 years ago
well aggy you have done a splendid splendid wonderfull,awsome,winsome stuff.
its really great you have worked hard probebly on all of the planetes.
but tell me one thing that if mercury had volcano history then whats reason of thier doom???
handsom02 2 years ago
:O) Thanks very much for the really great comment! Your very kind! :O)
Mercury is very small and has more than likely cooled down internally to a point where the core has become mostly solid. So there is no liquid magma to try and force its way to the surface. This does not really mean that scientists are 100% sure that a volcano will not erupt again. It just seems very unlikely. All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
GIBTS Das auch AUF DEUTSCH???
AngelFTlemarsongs 2 years ago
Many thanks for watching! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
does it take more time to rotate around the sun than a single day! i cant unterstand why i just know that this should be based on Keplers laws, isnt it?
2diablinio 2 years ago
Not sure what you mean exactly. Are we talking about Mercury here? If so, then it fits into Keplers 'Three Laws of Planetary Motion'. If you search for the 'Kepler's Laws Calculator' then you can find the answer you need. All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
got it lol
alexandermcisaac 2 years ago
well i have a theroy / i find it very hard that all the planets in awere solarsestem earth got the lucky straw in resources to make awer world, what if earth robed resources from other planits in inpacked as the solarsestem formed like a game of pool,hiting other planets like mars,mercury pluto ex. but instead of going in a pocket as to say it stayed on the table and landed in a sweet spot lol just my theroy sorry for spelling lol
alexandermcisaac 2 years ago
Yes, Earth is very unique! Earth is actually a combination of all the different planets into one super planet. As you can see, Earth can be hot like Venus, cold like Pluto. Earth has water and is blue like Neptune. Earth have storms and auroras like Jupiter, as well as satellite (our moon) like Saturn, which is known for its rings and satellites. Earth has active volcanoes like Venus. Earth is rich in iron like Mars. Earth is specially designed for us! :)
sharinganx12 2 years ago
makes u think, if earth came to be, there is a deffenit amount of other planits out there that could have formed simaler to earth or we could be not so common, i highly dont think so though do to awer solarsestem complacations like resourses (water a lot of it ) and location and protection ,but simalar planits could form though not as abbundent of life as awer planit is...........or were freaks of univers nature lol
alexandermcisaac 2 years ago
It's really not a freak of nature. It is too easy to predict life on what we see in our solar syatem. You can't do that though because the universe is so different in many ways. 1 solar system could contain mostly water, another ice, another rock etc... It is estimated that there are a minimum of 10,000 plantets in every galaxy that could support life, now multiply that by the amount of galaxies.
and there could be a minimum of 1000000000000000 earth like planets in the universe. :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
Well don't worry, you're not a freak. To determine if life exists in another star-system or galaxy further enough, we must do the math. Our Earth is in the habitable zone of our solar system, our sun which is a yellow dwarf, and the third position from it, and will remain that way for another 10 billion year perhaps? Until the sun consumes Earth. So if the star is a red giant, then for liquid water and life to exist the planet must be further than Earth's former habitable, get it?
sharinganx12 2 years ago
What I meant was, the bigger the star, the further the planet must be. The smaller the star, the closer the planet must be, that is in order for liquid water to exist because it needs just the right temperature where water wont boil or freeze. Also the planet must be the right size like Earth, otherwise the gravity might be too weak to support an atmosphere or too strong that it crushes us. In addition, the planet must have a magnetic field and volcanic activity...
sharinganx12 2 years ago
continuing on, it needs to have the right atmosphere. Our earth is about 78%nitrogen and 21% oxygen, and the remaining carbon dioxide, argon, and various gasses. In order for plants to live we need carbon dioxide, but not too much or human and animals will suffocate. The planet must have a mixture of nitrogen higher than the amount of oxygen and not the other way around, or the planet is highly flammable. Planets containing hydrogen like the giants are highly explosve. We're lucky to have earth!
sharinganx12 2 years ago
Other planets dont need to have the same atmosphere as Earth for life. What your talking about is a planet that could hold human life. We have found various other ways life could exist. Just look at the bottom of the oceans. Also a new theory has just been anounced saying that tiny flowers like the ones we see at Earths poles could in theory exist on Europa. We are starting to learn that life is mcuh more diverse than we give it credit for. There is even life found in the Dead Sea. LOL
AggManUK 2 years ago
Well I'm sorry I wasn't specific enough, I meant human life, but life seems interesting! I learn new things everyday and I appreciate it, all the best! :)
sharinganx12 2 years ago
actually it is said that life actually teraformed the earth making it habitable over millions of years more and more complexe life started to aries just with the evalution of plaints ex started with preastoric planctin,the more basic than plaints than trees than flower plants the more evolved the plant to give off more oxigen the more complexe life appears so life gives rise to more life just needs a little boost first and a starting point
alexandermcisaac 2 years ago
so plants are awere god and vise versa
alexandermcisaac 2 years ago
Hmm so if possible then we would bombard Venus, Mars, Europa, and any other H20 water containing celestial bodies with algae, would that work?
sharinganx12 2 years ago
im not a expert but if they could servive and mutiply and have lots of room to grow such as a hug water source ya i think so it would take millions of years to see the efect though on a atmospher if it can hold a atmospher .......long as it has carbindioxid for the planits to feed of ya but like i said im not a expert but makes sence to me (organic teraforming)
alexandermcisaac 2 years ago
Well, if Venus and Mars are both rich in carbon dioxide then plant life might just work, but what type of plant life can survive in water vapor or ice water? Liquid water are both scarce on those planets...and it would take billions of years for water to melt on other planets and moons since we would have to wait for the sun to grow bigger and warmer. I think it's ok for now for us to define life in those planets/moons as micro-organisms/bacterias. Where there is water, there is life...
sharinganx12 2 years ago
agreed nice chat........
alexandermcisaac 2 years ago
Yeah let's not be greedy and define life for just us humans and animals...After all, every living thing is made of water. Hydrogen is waterforming, hydrogen is like Gods holy gas in which life cannot start without it...
sharinganx12 2 years ago
Algae would be the best action to take as these can survive extreme conditions and they would transform the atmosphere over time. Europa would be a great place to try this if there isint already algae there..
AggManUK 2 years ago
Perhaps. I had a thought that Mercury was once a gas giant when the sun was still young, then the sun got bigger into it's size now that the atmosphere evaporated, leaving it bald only with it's rocky planet...but I guess that's just me and one of my fantasies. Why I thought of that? Because I heard that Mercury has 70% argon in its atmosphere as well as other radioactive decay materials...but I'm sure Mercury was not a gas giant. Just for thoughts :)
sharinganx12 2 years ago
Yes it did, but it had to have the building blocks in the first place. Your right though, life gives life and it goes on and on even today.
AggManUK 2 years ago
Remember that just because we are in an ideal zone, does not mean every other planet or moon has to like us to support life or have liquid water. For example... Put a moon like Europa between various other moons or planets so it gets good tidal heating. Giive it a good magnetic field and ample gravity and hey presto... Water world! This came be any distance from the Sun. It could also be various sizes. It all comes down to its habitat. Life could be everywhere, we just can't see it yet.
AggManUK 2 years ago
Hmm interesting, and yeah true enough. I've heard of bacterias who survive in extreme conditions and there are probably some microorganisms living in our solar systems moons. Oh and never knew about tidal heating...I learn new thinks everyday! :)
sharinganx12 2 years ago
once again nice videos (WANT MORE) LOL ennyway seems to me earth was lucky and got the best materal when the solarsistem was formed and located in the best location green zone making it unique and perfect for life but with all the planits in awer solarsestem, the gas giants seem to get all the negative components and the smaller planits get less making life more posibale.
alexandermcisaac 2 years ago
nice dude
charizardsspirit 2 years ago 3
Many thanks for watching! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
Lovely, AggMan! I've subscribed. I'm following the New Horizons and Messenger missions too. Keep up the good work, you make astronomy hugely entertaining.
hrpman 2 years ago 7
Thats a great comment, thanks very much for watching! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
marbles xD
eray232 2 years ago
I'm a Gemini and I love this! ^_^
sharinganx12 2 years ago
Cool, and many thanks! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
wow thats so fasinating!
briscoealexandra89 2 years ago 10
Many thanks for watching! I hope you enjoy the others. All the best! :O)
AggManUK 2 years ago
damn... now i wont get any work done... I have to watch your planet videos... they are so interesting! Its all your fault :D
librano 2 years ago 14
What!? Well, you can't bla... Oh, yes your right! It is my fault. Sorry about that. :O) Have a nice trip! :O) LOL
AggManUK 2 years ago
Whats that music? i love this video and Mercury is my planet that rules gemini
AKgirlfan 3 years ago 4
Hi there! :O) The music is up in the top right hand corner in the video info. It is Musica Univeralis, by Mike Oldfield. Glad you enjoyed the video! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
My mistake i didnt pay the imfo provided in the corner any attention thanks for the reply
AKgirlfan 3 years ago 2
nice!
nickomay30 3 years ago 3
Thanks again! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
the distance from Mercury to the Sun looked like 1cm lol
mtrtrain 3 years ago 2
LOL! Not so much an orbit, more a hug.
AggManUK 3 years ago
I recently learned that Mercury is the only planet in the solar system that does not have an atmosphere. Were you aware of this?
Marlymarl77 3 years ago
Hi there!
I am afraid that you have been misinformed. Mercury does indeed have an atmosphere, though there are a couple of points to note. It is very, very, very thin and gets destroyed and replenished (for want of better words) often. The makeup of this thin atmosphere is hydrogen, helium, oxygen, sodium, calcium, potassium and recently discovered by the Messenger probe, there are trace amounts of water vapor.
Hope this helps. All the best! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
I heard the moon also has a very thin atmosphere as well.
truthtopower80 3 years ago
Yes thats right! It is about 1 million times thinner than our own. It is mostly a sodium cloud, commonly called an 'exosphere' that reaches all the way to the surface. It was confirmed in the early 1990's. All the best!
AggManUK 3 years ago
Great video
But could somebody explain how a day on mercery vorks in layman terms if a day is 57 days long but some parts of the planet is forever hidden i darkness. Is the planet not roatating but moore of rolling along as a tennis ball on its axis around the sun?
LillErik 3 years ago 2
Hi! Mercury does rotate, Here is a very brief explanation to your question.
Every part of the planet does see sunlight in a sense. But imagine very large craters at the North and South poles of the Planet. Craters so deep that their sides are very steep and cause a shadow to be cast thats further than the center point of said crater. So, when the planet rotates, the center of the crater never sees direct sunlight. Amazingly, it is possible for ice to survive there for millions of years.
AggManUK 3 years ago
Thanks for the prompt reply, now I can sleep better at nights. Keep the infotainement comming.
LillErik 3 years ago
According to my horoscope, Mercury is my ruling planet. Which is funny too because I enjoy really hot weather and was born during one of the hottest August's, and that its the planet closest to the Sun.
TimeTravel87 3 years ago 2
Now thats kind of spooky isn't it! lol Thanks for the great comment and for watching! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1234qwerty09 3 years ago 3
Many thanks for watching, i hope you get a chance to watch my others. There are 19 now. LOL All the best! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
Another excellent video! Many props to you! I really do enjoy learning new things about the planets of our solar system, and i must say, i learn something new every time i see one of your videos! Thanks you!!!
judd1111 3 years ago
Many thanks for the great comment, i am so glad you enjoy them but more so that you have learnt a little something from each one. Many many thanks! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
Btw I thought one side of Mercury is always teurned towards sun and the other side faces away from the sun and therefor one side has a very high temerature while the other side is extremely cold?
maxelldemon 3 years ago
That is commonly though but, Mercury rotates just like the Earth. It takes just over 58 days to complete a single day, so every part of the planet does gets a chance to face the Sun. I have to admit, in my earlier years i though just as you did! Thanks for the great comment! All the best! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
OMG this is a master piece. Ive never seen a video so interesing. It must have been very hard to create this. I learned some facts about MErcury I had never evn heard of before. I understand why u dont want anybody to download thisvideo. A painstakingly created video. If you disable embedding then nobody can download this isnt it?
maxelldemon 3 years ago
Thank you very much, your very kind! :O) It's not that i don't want people downloading it, i just don't like people downloading it, then chopping it up. If they want the material, they can find it all over the net, so there is no need to chop up these ones. A few people have already used these videos to help in their school work and thats fantastic. Thanks again! I hope you like the others as much as you liked this on. There are 17 of them now! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
Yep u r rite I'm also a teacher and I wanted to show this to my students the moment I saw this.
And oh yes some people can dwonload the best videos and then edit them to make the worst ones lol.
So you didnt create this yourself? You mean this video is available just evrywhere readymade like this?
maxelldemon 3 years ago 2
Hi again! All the (19) videos on my page are made by me. The great music is 99% Mike Oldfield. The images are collected by me on the internet from NASA and other sites. Then I find video I like and edit that to what I want. Then I make the start logos with the name of the video. I have 3 versions of the end AggManUK logo, so I can fit to different song lengths. Then I write what I want to say for each frame. Then I put it all to music. So, no its not ready made, takes a lot of work. :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
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digitalchico 2 years ago
@digitalchico
Teachers are homan beings and say all sorts of things when they're NOT ACTUALLY TEACHING. You must be REALLY STUPID if you think that teachers are not human.
karmar22able 1 year ago
You should be minding your own business budy lol if you see the person w ho claimed to be a teacher you would understand that , that person doesn't seem to be a teacher or professional at all. so check your facts ok/.?
digitalchico 1 year ago
mercurio =D
I didn't know that mercury had ICE, incredible.
motorcreeper 3 years ago
Hi there! :O) Mercury does not have ice for sure. But because the poles have craters which have sides that have never seen the sun, there is a chance that any ice that once formed there, could still be there. Until we get better data, we don't know for sure. Many thanks for watching! I hope you enjoy my other videos. :O) All the best!
AggManUK 3 years ago
ok. Well it's not easy to download from Youtube. In fact. i don't think it's legal, i am not sure. If you are going to use it for a MS powerpoint project, then you can just add it as a link.
AggManUK 3 years ago
because our teacher said that we should download it, so that we will be able to put it in the MS powerpoint for our project.
eimerie27 3 years ago 2
how can i download this video?
eimerie27 3 years ago 2
Can you tell me why? Thanks for watching! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago
TO download this u need to get a youtube converter. can get it for free online.I guess the most popular software is dvdvideosoft frees tudio. Sorree AggManUk if u dont like anybody downloading it.:(
maxelldemon 3 years ago
I don't know, I used to think Mercury was the hottest planet, but I have also heard that Venus is the hottest planet. I think Mercury has closer contact with the sun.
brentsapp25 3 years ago 2
They are two different types of heating. Mercury just gets baked by the Sun as it is so close, so in that respect, it is the hottest. Venus has an atmosphere with a run away green house effect, so in that respect, it's the hottest. Then of course you have Io. That can reach 2000k on its surface because of the volcanos! All gets a bit crazy don't it! Many thanks for watching! :O)
AggManUK 3 years ago