What If You Spent 5 Seconds on Mercury?

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Mercury is a strange, hot mess of a planet. This rock is closest to the Sun, but its surface temperatures can plummet to as low as -180 °C (-290 °F). It has the strangest sunrises and sunsets in the entire Solar System. And one day on this planet lasts about two years. But you don't have to survive a whole day down there. We're sending our team member Chase on a mission to spend just 5 seconds on Mercury.

00:00 What If You Spent 5 Seconds on Mercury?
00:51 Mercury's Exosphere is Almost as Thin as the Vacuum of Space
03:53 Mercury's Daytime Lasts 176 Earth Days
06:37 Mercury Experiences a Double Sunrise
07:40 To Witness the Retrograde Sunrise on Mercury, One Must Remain on its Surface For a Few Hours

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コメント (21)

@cmdrbatnha787 6ヶ月前

Chase knows he's not gonna make it back, but he also knows that he will live again to try that 😂
@Azre613 6ヶ月前

Chase's life is so eventful
@MohotasimFuwad 3ヶ月前

The camera man never dies.
@bradharrelson212 5ヶ月前

Can’t believe the amount of work someone put into this, thank you for that
@paulosaluta5968 6ヶ月前

it's funny to see that his folding bed and the coconut did not burn and get toasted...🤣🤣🤣
@Afahs993 6ヶ月前

Man I love it when they bring up Chase & his humor👏🏻 You guys are amazing 💫
@Beach_Buggy_Racing_pro. 6ヶ月前

Chase is just amazing he risks his life fearlessly for us to get to know the components of our galaxy and the amazing wonders of it more
@Kryssaira 6ヶ月前

Poor Chase, I feel sorry for him. He always dies.
@jezelgentiles 3ヶ月前

I'm jealous of Chase. He has unlimited lives and could live it to the fullest extent 😂😂😂
@josephmansfield2437 6ヶ月前

i have always thought that mercury was the core of a gas giant that got too close to the sun
@ClearGlimpseOfficial 6ヶ月前

i would love a what if video about a flat earth "visit" with some typical what if jokes 😂
@Veronica.A. 6ヶ月前

Send him to Neptune. Its raining diamonds there. He won't have to ever work again. But, he will have to face the -339 degree Fahrenheit and 1500mph wind speeds first. No pain, no gain.😂
@geo77sand 6ヶ月前

I could not have imagined that kind of "double" sunrise could exist for real! Thanks for that amazing video on Mercury.
@truegamer2819 3ヶ月前

this is one brave astronaut for taking some serious risk with planets not to be toyed with
@jorgebaezsolis4588 5ヶ月前

"I've died way too many times to go out there without prep." 😂😂
@insightgemm 6ヶ月前

LOVE THIS CHARACTER! Can't wait to see more!
@user-tb5yn7dn9n 6ヶ月前

The best quality control channel ever.
@TheEducat0r 6ヶ月前

This video blew my mind! This got me questioning everything I thought I knew about space!
@not.monaa_ 4ヶ月前

He has the most underrated videos, the quality, editing, is iust amazing.
@markbrisko8720 6ヶ月前

Poor Chase, died on Mercury. 😢 Bring him back please! Recommend mission: ride a comet or asteroid like a bucking bronco for a close encounter with earth.