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Traveling Around Other Worlds

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Mercury Is in a Three Two Orbital Resonance

Mercury has a highly elliptical orbit. Earth doesn't orbit the sun as a circle, but our path is nearly circular. Mercury's winter one year will be much hotter or colder than the previous year. The nights are deadly cold once the planet radiates its heat away. A person lost on mercury when the sun rises or sets has little choice but to dig in to the darkest cradle they can find and wait for rescue.

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