Why do we know very little about Mercury? ♨️ #shorts
1️⃣ Space near Mercury is HOT. Sending a spacecraft there is a bit like asking a laptop to work inside a hot pizza oven! Some spacecraft have gotten close to Mercury but none have remained in this scorching heat continuously. This means we still don’t have high-resolution data covering Mercury’s entire surface.
2️⃣ It’s difficult to observe from Earth: Because Mercury is very close to the Sun, when we try to look at it from Earth, it’s often lost in the Sun’s glare.
3️⃣ It’s hard to reach: Mercury is not that far, but according to some estimates, it would take less energy to get to Pluto than to get to Mercury. The Sun’s strong gravitational pull means that spacecraft need to use a lot of energy to slow down enough to orbit Mercury.
But our BepiColombo mission, will help us learn a lot more about Mercury when it enters into orbit in 2026! It’s the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to Mercury. It will help us answer many questions, such as: Why is there ice in the polar craters of the scorched planet? And what are the mysterious ‘hollows’ on its surface?
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
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#ESA #Mercury #BepiColombo
The MESSENGER mission spent 4 years orbiting the planet and mapped out the surface of Mercury at around 250 m/pixel or better … though I hope BepiColombo can do better!
Go there at night 😅😂
You need super fast fly by with super fast info gathering, even a laptop in a pizza oven can handle being there an extremely short time. Mega shielded fast fly by photos and measurements.
I would love a mercury satellite tidally locked on the night side of the Mercury like our meteorological satellites. But they will always be shielded from Sun. Hope it is possible and useful 😊
Nice ESA
Love EESA ❤️❤️❤️👀🚀🔭☄️🛰️🌌🙏🙏🙏🙋
ปัญหาเกี่ยวกับสัญญาณ และโปรแกรมต่าง ๆ ยังไม่ได้แก้ไขอะไร
Why do we need to know more about this type of planets? The normal thing is that we look for possible habitable planets.
Big Deal ! We also do not know nothing about the nextdoor neighbour in our apartment.
Knowing about something is very different than facing it on a daily basis.
My moto in life is simple, " if it's working, just leave it alone."
Great eyes…Mercury, I mean 🙈
فارسی نمیشه بکنید یا حداقل زیر نویس که ماهم بفهمیم
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It's not just Mercury that's hot 😂
Where would you rather live Mercury or Pluto
If it's possible
Must be the ice that forms under intense pressure and other environmental factors that make temperatures irrelevant.