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Strange Universe With Bob Berman

Strange Universe 2/9/20

Image credit: NASA/JPL
Mercury at First Encounter Closest Approach

Mercury has the most out of round orbit of any planet with its distance from the sun changing between 30 to 40 million miles. It also has no axial tilt and at its poles, half the sun’s disk is always below the horizon, so there’s permanent darkness inside every slight polar depression and crater. 

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