What If You Spent 5 Seconds on Mercury?
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 Credit to : What If