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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