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Description: MESSENGER images of Planet Mercury. Why craters are flat. Give a gift better than flowers and stay connected to mom. Go to buyraycon.com/astrum for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon. Mercury playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=rX_NCCpw5Uo&list=PL2gLpWRK0QlBl6GSpAXnsCt6QB4EJD89y Astrum merch now available! Apparel: teespring.com/stores/astrum-space Metal Posters: displate.com/promo/astrum?art=5f04759ac338b SUBSCRIBE for more videos about our other planets. Subscribe! goo.gl/WX4iMN Facebook! goo.gl/uaOlWW Twitter! goo.gl/VCfejs Astrum Spanish: bit.ly/2KmkssR Astrum Portuguese: youtube.com/channel/UChn_-OwvV63mr1yeUGvH-BQ Donate! Patreon: goo.gl/GGA5xT Ethereum Wallet: 0x5F8cf793962ae8Df4Cba017E7A6159a104744038 Become a Patron today and support my channel! Donate link above. I can't do it without you. Thanks to those who have supported so far! Image Credits: NASA TheGeoModels - youtube.com/watch?v=zufx28sBhWg #planetmercury #messengerprobe #mercury #mercurynasa #messengernasa #mercuryimages #mercurysurface #astrum #nasa #whatnasasawonmercury When something is as incredibly difficult to get to as Mercury, it is extremely tricky to study. Which is one of the reasons why in all of human history, there have only ever been 2 missions to Mercury, with just one more on the way. Mariner 10 in 1974, MESSENGER in 2011 and BepiColombo due to arrive in 2025. Of these prior two missions, only MESSENGER went into orbit around Mercury, and so it is the only mission to ever give us close up shots of Mercury’s surface. And crazily enough, some of the formations we’ve seen on the surface are still unsolved mysteries even more than a decade on, while other formations give us hints at the raw primal power of the early solar system