Mercury Is So Hot, It’s Making Ice

Scientists first saw patches of ice on Mercury 20 years ago, and that discovery raised a lot of questions: How could ice survive on one of the solar system’s hottest planets, and how did it get there in the first place? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab6bda/meta https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/681/solar-system-temperatures/ http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/23-How-long-is-a-day-on-Mercury- https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_mercury.html https://spacenews.com/32630nasas-messenger-spacecraft-confirms-water-ice-on-mercury/ https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/giot-m4c031320.php Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MESSENGER_-_spacecraft_at_mercury_-_atmercury_lg.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/media/PressConf20121129.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13425 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4790 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/messenger_gallery.html https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/710249main_messenger_orbit_image20121129_10_full_full.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11184 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004462/AIA171MercuryComposite_2048p30.mp4 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA00136.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercury_with_magnetic_field.svg https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/moon-mercury-ice https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11197