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We found something unexpected inside Mercury…
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Mercury makes no sense. It’s the closest planet to the Sun, yet parts of its surface are freezing cold. It’s so close to Earth, yet almost impossible to reach. And while its surface looks completely dead, its interior tells a very different story. In this video, we’ll explore what the BepiColombo probe has discovered on Mercury’s surface so far, and the unexpected surprises found hiding deep below.



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0:00 Exploring Mercury
4:10 Ring Craters
9:01 Surface Composition
12:56 Permanent Shadow
14:32 Mercury’s Scars
17:57 Diamond Layer
21:56 Super-Mercuries
23:42 Water on Mercury?



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References:
“BepiColombo Factsheet”, via esa.int https://astrumspace.info/bepifacts
“Fourth Mercury Flyby Begins BepiColombo’s New Trajectory”, via esa.int https://astrumspace.info/bepiflyby
“BepiColombo Reveals Mercury in a New Light”, via esa.int https://astrumspace.info/bepi_infra
“Inside Mercury: What Experimental Geophysics Is Revealing”, via carnegiescience.edu https://astrumspace.info/mercuryint
“Mercury’s Ice Lockers”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/mercuryice
“Slope Lineae as Potential Indicators of Recent Volatile Loss on Mercury”, via nature.com https://astrumspace.info/lineae
“A Diamond-Bearing Core-Mantle Boundary on Mercury”, via nature.com https://astrumspace.info/mercdiamond
“Forming Super-Mercuries: Role of Stellar Abundances”, via aanda.org https://astrumspace.info/supermerc
“Mercury’s Magnetic Landscape Mapped in 30 Minutes”, via esa.int https://astrumspace.info/mercmag
“Modeling the Delivery of Mercury’s Polar Ice”, via wiley.com https://astrumspace.info/mercimpact



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Credits:
Writer: Julia Masselos
Video Editor: Suhith
Audio Editor: James Horsley
Researcher: Shourya Shrivastava
Script Editor: Damaris McColgan
Thumbnail Designers: Peter Sheppard, Juane Dames
Publishing Lead: Georgina Brenner
Production Coordinator: Rose Unwin
Edit Producer: Poppy Pinnock
Head of Astrum: Jess Jordan
Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan



With special thanks to:
NASA/ESO/ESA



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