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Episode 19 --- The Trouble With Mercury: Our Solar System's Bizarre Innermost Planet
Episode 19 --- The Trouble With Mercury: Our Solar System's Bizarre Innermost Planet
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Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Oct 8, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Guest Catherine Johnson, a planetary geophysicist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, discusses this bizarre little world; the innermost planet in our solar system. A planet that’s so close to our Sun that its surface temperatures can hit 800 F. But surprisingly, its poles harbor enough water ice to completely bury a major metropolis. Some have even argued that Mercury may have once been habitable. Where it formed still remains a mystery, but it does have a tiny magnetic field, a very oversized iron core, and one of the largest impact basins in the solar system. A European mission is currently en route to orbit the planet in 2025.
Released:
Oct 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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