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Description: NASA's MESSENGER probes greatest images of Mercury's surface. Go to buyraycon.com/astrum for 15% off your order. Brought to you by Raycon 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 Video and images credit of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST, oist.jp). For more information, see: “Space Detectives! Sandbox Craters Reveal Secrets of Planetary Splash Marks and Lost Meteorites” (oist.jp/news-center/press-releases/space-detectives-sandbox-craters-reveal-secrets-planetary-splash-marks) T. Sabuwala, C. Butcher, G. Gioia, and P. Chakraborty. Ray Systems in Granular Cratering (journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.264501) #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.