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Almost everything you could want to know about the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. Real HD photos and videos taken by the MESSENGER probe. We discuss the orbit, climate, geographical features, and general physical characteristics or Mercury, and a lot more.Image Credits: NASA/MESSENGER/Space Engine
Craig Conrad – Nova https://www.craigconard.com/
Tags: mercury, planet, nasa, solar system, our solar system’s planets, astrum, astrumspace, magnetic field, magnetosphere, exosphere, rotation, orbit
The most informative and interesting video as usual. Thank you
I know it’s a good day when I see a new Astrum video. Love your content and the production. Thank you so much!
Mercury the messenger .. astrology
Fascinating. Thank you very much.
CONGRATS ON 500K SUBS! I’m one of them! Your content is amazing and that’s why you hit this milestone!
I like it METAL \m/ By the way, great video !
🤔 I can’t be the only one who barely noticed a difference between the true color and b&w picture.
Also, the video of the sunrise/sunset from the surface was pretty cool. 😯
It’s kinda scary thinking that earth could look like mercury someday
Norman Bergrun what about this guy !
Your visuals explained this very well. Thank you and all the best!
WHERE CAN I FIND THIS MUSIC IT’S SO RELAXING!!
At 0:51 what is the thing between Mars and Jupiter? 🤔🤔
maybe a core of a planet? most of the stuff striped by the sun
499k subs. Half a milion today?
A new Astrum video, even a redux, is always good news.
This 10 minutes video teach me more than My Teachers and School.
Thanks Astrum
❤️From🇧🇩
What about how its orbit can’t be accurately explained by Newtonian physics and it took Einstein to explain its orbit? Pretty cool. Great video, as always!
This video series never gets old, I’m looking forward to the rest of the remasters and thank you for your great work!
Appreciate the remaster but just wanted to point out that all your videos (new and old) are top quality, please keep it up!
Thank you so much! Your channel is one of best about the solar system.
These are my favorite episodes!
Wonderful video to watch after getting off work
OMG… the moon isn’t just gray…
Phenomenal graphics and editing, Astrum!
½M subscribers soon!
Insane, as per usual
Was interesting. Wish you had talked about water ice on Mercury.
Thank you for refreshing old videos with updated data and visuals.
Would it be crazy for a future civilization to combine several celestial bodies into the right size / density & location to make it a habitable world?
Thank you, good sir, for continuously reawakening my childhood fascination with space and astronomy with ever upload.
Wonderful work yet again, Alex. Thank you so much, that was a good brain exercise.
Loved those old planet videos! Glad to hear you remaster them
Thanks for the video, definitely learned something new about Mercury today!
Great video, interesting stuff about the sun rise and sun set
the Universe gets Updated all the time so please do remaster
time flies man I remember watching that video that same week… life is too short…
Everytime I see a video of yours it makes me dumb that I have to go miles ahead
*Mercury is the mostest closest to every planet in the solar system.*
Fascinating. Watching your cool graphic at around the video’s 8 minute mark, we see that the surface temperature is survivable for a human, for about 10 earth days. If that were the only consideration of course, but the atmospheric pressure is close to a vacuum, so we could never exit a spacesuit or vehicle, right?
I went out side day. Did you see mein the pictures.
Wow 6 years already? Been watching you a long time LOL.
And I won’t mind if it takes more than one video per planet either. 
So are you redoing all the planets etc but with new information?
EDIT: Woohoo, ok looking forward to the new planet videos
I love to look at mercury with my telescope. I love to stargaze
Estes vídeos são sempre interessantés!! É incrível de algum modo semelhante ao único satélite natural da Terra..A Lua e não tem satélites naturais …é um planeta metálico e órfão e o mais pequeno!!! E tem uma história geológica enorme…Parece estático e um excêntrico….Como interior pode afectar este planeta?!!!
It’s funny, I recently binge watched your videos on the planets in our solar system. I got all the time for new/updated videos on those. Hell anything else you upload.
Another good one! 👍🏻😃 To this earthling that bit about the sun, from Mercury’s vantage point, rising then going backwards a little before moving forward blew my mind. Can’t imagine standing on Mercury’s surface and seeing this. Whew! 🤪🤔🤯
Still waiting for a Mercury lander!
Breaking news: liquid mercury has been found on mercury!
1:18 How many people actually see colour here?
Imagine if mercury and the moon switched places
I believe I read recently where Mercury’s 70% metal content has some people wondering if Mercury is the remaining core of what was once a much larger planet. Maybe the collision with the giant astroid blew everything else away 🤔??
1:31 I think this is a beautiful picture. I have it as wallpaper and optimized it with more details and saturated colours.
As always I’ve really been enjoying watching the video. Am lookin forward to the remastered episodes! This refreshed so much knowledge in my head, thank you!. Cant wait for BepiColumbo to arrive. We need to talk more about mercury.
One side is very hot, one side is very cold. Sounds very much like my wife…
I was going to say that u already did this. But now I’m happy ur doing this again!!
I heard of a theory that Mercury was perhaps much larger, but due to forces (maybe a collision or due to the sun) it lost a lot of material. So, it used to be larger but what is now left is more of the planet’s core than the original thing. Anyone have any insights on this? Because I find that theory very interesting.
I’ve always found it fascinating that Titan has such a thick atmosphere for it’s size. Mercury would also retain and atmosphere if it were not so close to the Suns solar wind.
You forgot to mention that Mercury is, on average, the closest planet to all of the planets
On Average it’s also the closest planet to Earth
Congrats on half a million subs, hope you do a video about Ganymede one day
So, there’s no moon in mercury? Interesting, as his superficial gravity is just less of Mars I would imagine there should be moons there
Looking forward to the remasters of the other Planets! Really love your videos 😊
Wow imagine one day humans WILL be standing on mercury seeing this
Thank you Alex for your hard work
I was hoping you’d get into Mercury’s interactions with Jupiter… I read somewhere that these interactions will cause Mercury to enter into an orbital resonance with Jupiter which will eventually end up ejecting Mercury from the solar system.
1:17 Management needs you to find all the differences between these photos…
This increased my fascination for the planet Mercury. It’s such an awe-inspiring world.
2nd after astrum himself
EVERYTHING in this video is an image of the Messenger probe?
Never knew mercury had water ice. I guess with it being closer to the poles, along with mercury hardly having an axial tilt and somewhat of an magnetic field that water is relatively safe…
A comparison of the moon and mercury size wise would be cool, also, would the sun look much bigger because mercury is so much closer to it? Things I must know…
Keep up the great work and congrats in advance for breaking the 500k sub mark.
Outstanding quality, Astrum! I can imagine new Astronomy students learning from this video, great job👏 I can’t wait for the other videos to come out!
If you show this pictures and ask what is it most of people will say the moon they are quite similar
Mercury is kinda the same as the moon but its a lot hotter
I didn’t expected that Mercury is smaller than Ganymede and Titan, I hope no one will petition for Mercury to be a dwarf planet
That’s a lot of metal, could that mean it’s the remnant planetary core of a former gas giant?
That is a great idea to redo the existing ones..
Mercury is like a long lost brother of our Moon.
Imagine if Mercury was Venus’s moon…..
Ah, yes, I should redo this video too, as many of my viewers have complained that they don’t like the music I chosed
So when my teachers called me dense, they were just saying i was planetary right?
Your demonstration of the day being twice as long as the year was excellent.
Everything I’ll show you is real pictures or video taken by a probe.
Next shot: top-down look on The Solar System
But the audio quality is so much better, nice reupload. Keep up the good job, Astrum.
Very interesting and very well done.
I think that you should do a video about all dwarf planets from the solar system
You are so close to 500k!
Me: Hasn’t he done this video before? Sounds exactly the same except the audio is better recorded.
Alex: I’m planning on remastering all of my the old planet videos.
Me: Excellent!
Fascinating video made so much better by a well paced and “easy on the ear” narration.
Our Moon has colors as well, just check the so called “true color” pictures of the Moon that some astrophotographers take. It actually shows that there’s a lot of oxidation on the surface of the Moon.
imagine hooking mercury up to electrical cable, unlimited power
The audio and the graphics feel so much better than the older version. We all improve and advance with time; the channel’s come a long way.
The giant crater on Mercury would be amazing to see IRL
Didn’t Mercury also help to confirm General Relativity?
Can’t wait to see the rest of the videos in this series!
“I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.”
― Stephen Hawking
I’m glad your remastering this series, so much more has been found since the original
Fascinating!
Interesting. We need to send a lander.
The world’s most difficult selfie.
We need to take the picture of earth again. You weren’t smiling.
On Mercury a day lasts 1,408 hours. Just like every Monday 🙄
So, Mercury is 70% metal?
_headbanging intensifies_
Note: This is a remaster of the original Mercury video that I made about 6 years ago (crazy how time flies!). Here’s the original for a comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ZUhpisWeQ
Here’s the patch notes for the remaster:
– 60fps instead of 30fps
– Updated crappy CGI of Mercury’s orbit with Space Engine footage
– Updated information where applicable
– Fixed grammar mistakes
– Totally re-recorded the audio
– New music
– New visuals showcasing Mercury’s magnetic field and its interaction with its exosphere and the solar wind
– New views of Mercury’s North Pole
– New views of recent Mercury transits
– Space Engine view of the rotation and orbit of Mercury
– Closed captions now available (previous video only had auto-generated captions)
– Pacing changes
– Other minor changes